Author Topic: Do Not Call (Read 668 times)

Nash · « **on:** June 27, 2003, 02:02:26 PM »

Sure wish we had the same thing up here...

"The federal government Friday launched a national "do-not-call" registry aimed at stopping most telemarketing phone calls to people who regard the sales pitches as invasive and want them blocked."

"After a number is registered, commercial telemarketers will be required to remove that number from their call list within three months," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/27/do.not.call/index.html

ET · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2003, 02:06:21 PM »

The site is donotcall.gov
I tried to register but could not get through.
The news said they had over a million hits by 2pm in the east.

Chaos68 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2003, 02:07:58 PM »

im watching Tech TV and they are trying to get on but said there server cant handle the volume of people....just wait and keep trying and you will get in.

Apache · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2003, 02:09:05 PM »

I tried as well but no go yet. I heard on the radio a few ago that there were 108 registrations...per second.

Nifty · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2003, 02:49:47 PM »

The do-not-call list will be ok, but I want a f***ing do-not-spam list. I get far more spam email than I do spam phone calls. However, if you read the fine print...

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Charities, surveys and calls on behalf of politicians are exempt from the registry.

Great, so that means I will only end up blocking maybe 30-50% of my phone spam by getting on the list. Most of my phone spams were charities as it is. I dunno anymore. I don't answer Out of Areas or 1-800 numbers that show up on caller ID.

Fishu · « **Reply #5 on:** June 27, 2003, 03:12:47 PM »

Hehe.. they should've put up server to each state as a minimum, instead of single server for the whole country, since even child knows the server will get clogged up with something like that

SaburoS · « **Reply #6 on:** June 27, 2003, 03:13:31 PM »

I just dialed their phone #1-888-382-1222
Got through both times for my cell and my home phone on the first try each. Only rule they specify is that you have to call with the phone you want on the list.

Nash · « **Reply #7 on:** June 27, 2003, 03:52:06 PM »

I just heard a guy on the tube say that telemarketers employ 6 million people, and this donotcall thing is gonna wipe out a couple million of 'em right out of the gate.

aww that's heartbreaking.

Ozark · « **Reply #8 on:** June 27, 2003, 03:54:46 PM »

We had “Do Not Call” in Missouri for 3 years. I bet I don’t get over 5 marketing calls a year.

Now if we could only get "Do Not Spam"!

Fishu · « **Reply #9 on:** June 27, 2003, 04:58:26 PM »

Yeah.. I've been waiting US to finally apply a law that bans email 'advertising' as it is now in the US.

...since US is so big country and all around internet, thats the main source for spam I get.
When there finally comes a useful law to ban those, it would cut 90% of the world wide spam.

Just copy over the fax laws, rename few things and it's done.
You cannot advertise your company even from abroad, or your company would get fined :>
It took good amount of wasted fax paper though.
...and email isn't paper and these old types in US goverment doesn't understand for internet.

funkedup · « **Reply #10 on:** June 27, 2003, 05:02:56 PM »

Yep we need the same thing for Spam.

Junk mail too. Will never happen for junk mail though. USPS appears to be primarly a junk mail distribution company.

Bodhi · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2003, 05:50:26 PM »

Got in first try.... now if I only get the verification email!

Mighty1 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2003, 10:35:25 PM »

Indiana has had it for a while now and I went from 10 calls a week to MAYBE 1 call a month.

SWEET!

SOB · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2003, 10:38:44 PM »

I only use a cell phone. Got rid of the home phone a couple of years ago. The only telemarketing calls I ever got were from Omaha Steaks, and that's because I gave them my number.

SOB

Fishu · « **Reply #14 on:** June 28, 2003, 04:23:08 AM »

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Originally posted by SOB
I only use a cell phone. Got rid of the home phone a couple of years ago. The only telemarketing calls I ever got were from Omaha Steaks, and that's because I gave them my number.

SOB

I've stopped using home phone as well.. cellphone works just as good (and it actually goes with) and the prices are roughly on a par nowadays

Never really have to suffer of phone marketing though..
perhaps twice in my life so far.

We finns have applied laws in time...