[steve-b]

Telemarketers should have seen the writing on the wall when they got banned from cellphones, changes in their behavior would have avoided this.

Yep. The last straw was when they started installing technology to get around "TeleZapper" blocks -- once they demonstrated that their response to a locked gate with a NO SOLICITORS sign was to break and enter, the only thing left to do was to force them to respect people's private property.

[discostu]

Exactly. They acted just like thieves, every barrier people tried to errect around their phone service they tried to get around. They always made it clear that the companies seaking advertising were their customers, we were an enemy to be subjugated. If 10 years ago these guys make it easy to get on their internal don't call list and respect the request none of this happens.