[meyer]

I pay for your entitlement. I prefer not to, but you and millions of other people lobbied to make me.

Do you pay for police and fire protection as well? That's an entitlement too, but I suspect that you aren't complaining about that. You just don't like the government helping people enforce tresspassing and harassment laws when it involves their phone lines and equipment rather than their other property.

Besides, given the penchant of telemarketers to do their deed, I suspect that the fines collected under this rule will more than pay the measley cost of keeping 'the list" up to date.

[palmer]

You just don't like the government helping people enforce tresspassing and harassment laws when it involves their phone lines and equipment rather than their other property.

That's correct. The marketplace does it already and could do it even better if the states allowed local service competition.