[HiTech RedNeck]

For the life of me I can't figure out why this would lose a single telemarketing job. The list of eligible numbers gets smaller, but those numbers get called more often. What's more the sales success rate would rise. Maybe this is what will cut the jobs! -- it takes longer to consummate a sale than to give an unsuccessful pitch.

[Revolting cat!]

Door to door salesmen are taught, we were once told by a former solicitor and now a FReeper, that people who hang "NO SOLICITORS" signs on their doors (or "NO PEDDLERS", as the cat does,) are easy marks, people who don't know how to say "no". If there is something to it, then you can imagine that many of the 30 million who signed up for the "Do Not Call" list used to be the telemarketers best customers! Just a wild guess...