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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: paploo on June 27, 2003, 08:49 AM
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the US government has passed a law that allows people to enter their telephone number into a database which restricts telemarketers from calling you. it was just passed today, so the website has been up and down. check it out
www.donotcall.gov
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Best law ever. Now they need a "donotspam.gov." THEN we can celebrate.
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Best law ever. Now they need a "donotspam.gov." THEN we can celebrate.
Now THAT would be something to throw a party about!
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I tried going to the site, but unfortunately it's not coming up for me. It must be getting pounded by a ton of traffic I guess. I'll try again later.
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Indiana has had this law in place for, oh Id say maybe a year at least? It is very effective! There are still exceptions to who can call though (non profits, newspapers, govt. related and a few others I believe), but as a whole it is incredibly efficient. We used to get 2-3 calls a day, and now hardly get that many in a months time
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2-3 a day? I wish, we get nailed probably on average about 7 times a day. Two or three during the day. Most at supper time but a few as late as 10 PM. >:(
Canada has no such law.
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We get hit about 5 times a day, and most of them are in the evenings. That's mainly because if they're calling an average household both the husband & wife work, and won't be home during the day to answer the phone.
I HATE TELEMARKETERS! >:(
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Yep, I think the site is jammed. Here's the story on CNN.
Consumers can sign up to block telemarketers (http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/27/do.not.call.ap/index.html)
I did copy & paste the URL & I got into the National Do Not Call Registry. The link I provided works. ;)
http://www.donotcall.gov
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We've had such a list in Minnesota for around 6 months now. Idiots made it with so many loopholes though that it has done nothing.
I'll register but do not expect anything to change
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I know that hundreds of thousands of people are trying to register on this site, but I thought I'd say that I have yet been able to do this today. It keeps bombing on me. I'm gonna just keep and trying until I can register.
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Still crashing. I'll do it this weekend when everyone is not at work raking this site over the coals.
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I heard on the news that this site was getting 1000 hits per second or something silly like that.
Lately email spam has been a much bigger problem than telemarketers. The thing I hate most about telemarketers is that 10 second delay when you pick up the phone where you say, "hello" about six times before you get a person on the other end with their 5 minute soliloquey.
Anyhow, good law in my book.
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I just got into the site to register just fine, but then I realized we're moving next month, so why bother right now. I'll just wait 'til we get into the new casa and register our new # out there.
We get several telemarketer calls a day (sometimes as early as 7:30am >:(), but most everyone we know, knows that we screen all of our calls, so if they don't start talkin' to the machine - they ain't gonna get to talk to us! On the rare occasion we do pick up and it's a telemarketer, we usually figure it out by the "brief pause", and just hang up right away. Either that, or I just say "No, Matt's not here right now. Bye."
E-mail spam on the other hand... Oh boy is that crap out of control. I must delete a good 50 or so a day, in our several different e-mail accounts. Obnoxious fools those spammers are! ::)
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E-mail spam on the other hand... Oh boy is that crap out of control. I must delete a good 50 or so a day, in our several different e-mail accounts. Obnoxious fools those spammers are! ::)
With caller id, I just don't answer (though it is annoying) but like Matt stated: Email spam is wayyyy out of control. I am so tired of people trying to get me to enlarge a body part I don't have, participate in activities with members of the same sex or invite me to spy on people with a tiny little camera, I could SCREAM!!!!
Anyways, I'm going to sign up for the "don't bother me, I'm eating" phone harasser list and keep hoping we'll have an email spam one some day.
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There was a local news report saying that people will eventually stop using email, because of all the spam they get in their inbox. I don't think I'll ever stop using email, but it is annoying when you get about 50-100 junk emails and only 1-5 of them are actually from someone you know. >:(
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These bastards used to fill up my answering machine with offers to sell my vinyl siding. Considering I live in an apartment building, it's beyond stupid.
I switched to a cell phone exclusively and haven't had single telemarketer call. I'm still going to sign up, but I'll wait a bit until it isn't being accessed a million times a minute.
A Do Not Spam list would be awesome, and bring this world one step closer to Utopia.
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You know it's bad when this happens to you...
My wife and I get the Chicago Tribune only for the Sunday Section (because of the retail ads and much more content). We get a phone call about 3-5 times per week from the Chicago Tribune asking if we'd like to subscribe to their newspaper. We tell them we're already subscribed to the Sunday Section. They then say, "Well, you can get a nice discount if you order a daily subscription though." We always tell them that we're not interested in that, and that we ONLY want our current Sunday Section. Before they can even continue any further we tell them to put us on their "do not call list." That has never helped.
But now, if I can ever register online, perhaps we'll stop getting those stupid calls. I sure hope this new program actually works.
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You know it's bad when this happens to you...
My wife and I get the Chicago Tribune only for the Sunday Section (because of the retail ads and much more content). We get a phone call about 3-5 times per week from the Chicago Tribune asking if we'd like to subscribe to their newspaper. We tell them we're already subscribed to the Sunday Section. They then say, "Well, you can get a nice discount if you order a daily subscription though." We always tell them that we're not interested in that, and that we ONLY want our current Sunday Section. Before they can even continue any further we tell them to put us on their "do not call list." That has never helped.
But now, if I can ever register online, perhaps we'll stop getting those stupid calls. I sure hope this new program actually works.
i had a real pushy newspaper sales person one time. asking me to buy the paper. i told them i didnt want it. they asked me where i got my news from, i told them tv or internet. he continued to tell me that i cant get all the news from those sources, and then continued to push...finally i respond with, i dont get the paper because I DONT KNOW HOW TO READ.... there was a dead silence for a minute, then a thank you for your time...i was never called again
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finally i respond with, i dont get the paper because I DONT KNOW HOW TO READ.... there was a dead silence for a minute, then a thank you for your time...i was never called again
That is awesome!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! (http://66.227.101.70/otn/realhappy/xxrotflmao.gif)
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I FINALLY was able to register my home phone #, my cell phone #, and my wife's cell phone #. ;D