I tried to sign up for the national Do Not Call List. Basically, you sign up and three months later, telemarketers aren’t allowed to call you. Sounds like a good idea.
Of course, the website was overwhelmed. You can check to see if your number’s already in there, say from your state’s list, but that didn’t seem to work. I then signed up for all my numbers, but they need to send you a confirmation email, which now 6 hours later I have yet to receive. You’d think they would have planned for the onslaught of telemarketing hate. By 2:30, they had 635,000 people sign up and expect 60 million.
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1 jodyferry // Jun 30, 2003 at 8:46 pm
Nice. I signed up and got the confirm email 4 hours later. Seems there’s some red tape though. It won’t stop all harassing calls…we’ll still get “survey” calls apparently…
From their FAQ, “If the call is really for the sole purpose of conducting a survey, it is not covered. Only telemarketing calls are covered � that is, calls that solicit sales of goods or services. “
Aren’t most “surveys” a form of “telephone marketing” as well? Maybe version2 will better serve us.
2 JHill // Jun 30, 2003 at 9:08 pm
Yeah, I meant to update this Saturday morning… I got the emails, 13 hours later.
I guess they were stuck in the outgoing queue, which is pretty understandable.
700,000 registrants by the end of the first day… Pretty impressive.
3 JHill // Jun 30, 2003 at 9:11 pm
Wow, 10 million in the first four days…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2853324,00.html
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