donotcall.gov

[paploo]

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

[MisterPL]

Best law ever. Now they need a "donotspam.gov." THEN we can celebrate.

[dustrho]

Best law ever. Now they need a "donotspam.gov." THEN we can celebrate.

Now THAT would be something to throw a party about!

[dustrho]

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.

[BigDumbWookiee]

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

[Morgbug]

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.

[dustrho]

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!  

[DSJ™]

Yep, I think the site is jammed. Here's the story on CNN.

Consumers can sign up to block telemarketers

I did copy & paste the URL & I got into the National Do Not Call Registry. The link I provided works.  

http://www.donotcall.gov

[Scott]

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

[dustrho]

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.

[JoshEEE]

Still crashing. I'll do it this weekend when everyone is not at work raking this site over the coals.

[Dressel Rebel]

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.

[JediMAC]

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!  

[jadesfire]

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.

[dustrho]

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.