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Like I've said, I don't rush to answer the phone. I will answer it on my schedule.

I'm glad that works for you. For fifty-million Americans, that solution is not acceptable. I'm one of them.

You know what, though? I live in a home with four incoming telephone lines, and we have not placed ANY of them on the Federal Do Not Call list. As I've described, I police it myself, and I'm down to about five calls a month, total over four lines.

But I applaud the FDNC list because it is a reasonable response to a public nuisance. If I need it, I'll sign us up.

Like you, we police ourselves. Maybe that's why we aren't hassled all that much. But, unlike you, I won't sign up for a government list. History has proven, in the wrong hands, a good thing can and will be abused. I have more of an issue with junk mail. I get 6-8 credit card applications per day. I've mistakenly thrown away important bills thinking they were junk mail. But, you know the government will not regulate themselves wrt mail. I said earlier, if the government collected taxes per phone call, there would not be a no call list.