Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nash on June 27, 2003, 02:02:26 PM
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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
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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.
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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.
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I tried as well but no go yet. I heard on the radio a few ago that there were 108 registrations...per second.
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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...
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.
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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 :D
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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.
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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. :)
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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"!
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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.
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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.
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Got in first try.... now if I only get the verification email!
:rolleyes:
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Indiana has had it for a while now and I went from 10 calls a week to MAYBE 1 call a month.
SWEET!
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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
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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...
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I am amazed you do not haev laws against this.
Here it is illegal for people to try to sell you ****e like that ovetr the phone.
I'd be REALLY pissed if I answered the phone during dinner for the xxxx time only to hear 'hi, are you interested in...'.
It's like spam, only over the phone. And it takes up more of your time. ANd you think it might be an important call.
Ugh. Telemarketers should be rounded up and used as target for the Metal Storm gun.
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Texas has had a "No Call" list for over a year and I love it.
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Don't think this feature is something you really apreciate until you are a home owner. I get as many as 20 calls per night, as few as 5 calls per night... when its people its mostly for refinancing the house. Or its automated number systems just looking for phone numbers to add to lists.
MiniD
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I enrolled, but get very few calls anyway. It's still a cool feature, ty for the link.
That, and I shut the phone off during the day, with the answering machine taking the calls. I do admit if Im not sleeping I monitor the messages, and I get 5 or more a day that have that static 3 seconds of almost silence, and never a message left. Pry not a family member with important news I'm guessing.
I did answer one call 3 weeks ago after a few cocktails that asked if I wanted the local newspaper. I said NO. And trust me it was Budweizer diven and much more colorful than that. Yet they have been arriving every day since, littering my driveway, and even sent me a $45 bill.
I sent the bill back with a "Please stop littering on my driveway" note. It was very effective. They sometimes leave it on my porch now if it's raining. Super.
I feel for the people that will lose their jobs because of this, but attending a technical college would make so much more sense for these guys. 18 months of bad schooling, and find a job that pays better. Worked for me 20 years ago.