Dare I say, I think it's working!

I haven't had one annoying telemarketing call since it went into effect.

/hug FTC

I've just gotten 3 <3 ! (and yes, I did put all my numbers in)

Wow! They can be fined for up to $11,000 for each violation. I haven't figured out how to report them yet.

The State Attorney Generals office should have a web site to report them.

just when I thought it was safe to answer my phone...

I got a call at dinner time last night for one of those lame surveys.

They were quick to point out that they were not for profit so they were not affected by the do not call list. /sigh

Do not call?

The American people have voluntarily entered their names and phone numbers into a big ass'd database.

A database that every telemarketer on the planet has complete access to, at the click of a button(or script or printout).




/boggle

haha, that's the irony of the entire thing.

I love the idea of the DNC list for what it may lead to in the future, like possibly more restrictions on telemarketers. But for now, I'll continue to pay for privacy manager.

Fyyr sounds like someone who hates the government prying into their lives. Pry I say, Pry!

My phone, too, is pleasantly silent. No more 10-minute messages about the trip I won to Orlando, or offering credit card debt consolidation ("we haven't heard from you"....well, then, it would be fair to assume I don't want it? DUH!)

I work on the phone all day. I avoid it like the plague when I'm home.

The Privacy Song (http://www.deadtroll.com/video/privacysong.ram)

LOL

The idea is definitely catching on. The do-not-call list registry may soon branch out to a <a href=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/23/SPAM.TMP>do-not-spam registry</a>.

I've been called twice a day for two weeks straight by a company called Mcleod communications, some kind of new phone company.

They've also sent me two letters.

I've told them to stop calling me on at least 3 seperate occasions. Tonight was the 4th.

I was like, "Do you realize you guys have called me at least twice a day for two weeks?"

"Well sir, that is because we are trying to get you our message."

"I've told you three times now, never to call me again."

"But have you heard listened to what we have to offer yet?"

"Oh my bleeping god, you have to be bleeping kidding me. Don't bleeping call me ever again motherbleeper!!!!"

Originally posted by Seriena
haha, that's the irony of the entire thing.

I love the idea of the DNC list for what it may lead to in the future, like possibly more restrictions on telemarketers. But for now, I'll continue to pay for privacy manager.

Hey, it's working. I have only gotten one phone call and I've only gotten one of those annoying hang-up calls. I used to get several of each every day.

BTW: What's this privacy manager? I might be interested in that if the DNC list is over turned in the courts.

Now we need a do-not bulk mail list and a do-not spam list. But first I'd like the snail mail spam dealt with. I forgot to empty my mail box for a few days and I had gotten so much unsolicited commercial snail mail that it was too full and they started collecting it at the post office. When I finally picked it up, it was an enormous bundle of crap 99.9% of it was crap I didn't want.

Snail mail spam is more enjoyable, though. I pick one SASE from the pile, stuff it full of more spam mail, and send it back to them. After all, they've paid for it.

At least email spam isn't a massive waste of paper. :mad:

At least email spam isn't a massive waste of paper.

You know the first response from a lot of people from that is that, "ya, it's not a waste of paper, but it's a waste of bandwidth..."

And while that is also true, remember that spammers have to pay 3-4 times what you normal people have to pay for the same bandwidth. The RBOCs and ISPs sell that to them at an inflated cost.

And as such, in a morbid way, spammers are subsidising the rest of us.

So as the previous little link says, "For Gawd's Sake, Lie".

That way when you get your box full of

"Important message for you Asdf
Increase your [insert portfolio, breast size, penis size here]"

messages you just toss em.

A better trick is to input the name of who you are registering, that way when you get loan spam sent to

"Dear Mr/s Win Amp"

You know who sold your name in the first place, and then take it up with them, instead of the spammers.