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Judge Rules Against Do-Not-Call Registry
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| 9/24/02
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Posted on 09/24/2003 1:08:49 PM PDT by scab4faa
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To: hadaclueonce
Shooting me in the head? Man, you are a loose cannon.
To: Professional
The government, in this case, only facilitated the direct will of the people. This is what the government is for! And you call this "very bad". You sound just like the man who did smoke but did not inhale...
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posted on
09/24/2003 3:42:02 PM PDT
by
singsong
To: birbear
Telemarketing offers nothing useful. New windows. I'm in New York State and we signed something a few years ago and the very annoying calls ceased. Aside from new windows, I can't remember what these annoying calls were selling, but I do remember it was nothing we could use or wanted.
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posted on
09/24/2003 3:43:11 PM PDT
by
maxwellp
(Throw the U.N. in the garbage where it belongs.)
To: PaulJ; CDHart
Ditto. The FTC has no business telling business' who they can and can't call.IMHO, people are trying to read a lot more into this ruling than what actually happened.
From what I can see, it's a simple bureaucratic SNAFU. The morons in Congress gave authorization to one alphabet agency (the FCC), but gave the funding to a different agency (the FTC). The judge really had no option other than to rule that the idiots in Congress screwed up.
Good grief, are we governed by a bunch of inept and confused simpletons or what?
To: Stefan Stackhouse
2) To be in compliance, ANY business, no matter how small, that wishes to call ANY residential number ANYWHERE in the US must pay over SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for access to the Do-Not-Call registry, even if they only need to look up an occasional number now and then; free look-up access is provided only for five area codes, which is often not enough to cover an entire state, and sometimes not even an entire metro area. Let's cut down the hyperbole a bit.
Additional area codes beyond the first five are only $25 apiece, up to a maximum of $7,735 (for the entire US).
Anyone that is marketing to the entire US can afford ~$7K. Those needing the list for an entire state will pay a few hundred bucks (excepting the more populous states).
To: scab4faa
I got rid of the pests years ago by getting call blocking through my phone company.
I now take the peace and quiet for granted, but I can easily recall the literally hundreds of times I said, "Hold on a sec", and then laid the phone down and walked away. I would sometimes forget to come back in five or ten minutes to hang up the phone and would sometimes miss (real) calls.
No more of that.
Forget the "national registry" and just call your phone company if you want to get rid of the pests.
To: Lancey Howard
I got rid of the pests years ago by getting call blocking through my phone company. This can block legitimate calls, too.
My doctor's office has an explicit warning on their voicemail: you must disable anonymous call blocking because the doctor will return calls (after-hours) with his caller-ID blocked.
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To: Nathaniel Fischer
I thought my windmill story was good humor. Right over his head...
To: justlurking
It's no big deal for legitimate callers to get around the call block. It costs maybe 15 seconds or so. And I was surprised at how little impact call blocking had on our friends and family. Everybody gets right through, no sweat. It seems like nobody we know has their number blocked. And, as a matter of fact, our pediatrician returned our call a few weeks ago and he had no problem with the minor hassle of dealing with our call blocking. (Apparently, he had his number blocked.)
To: Willie Green
Good grief, are we governed by a bunch of inept and confused simpletons or what? Some wise person said that we get the government we deserve.
Wil Rogers said "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for."
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posted on
09/24/2003 4:46:11 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Lancey Howard
You obviously figured this out, and didn't need new laws by the govt to help you. Now, let me tell you about Windotrons!
To: Professional
Now, let me tell you about WindotronsI could probably add Windotrons to my current product line. (Get it?)
To: scab4faa
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posted on
09/24/2003 5:03:38 PM PDT
by
singsong
To: sd-joe
HELLO. The govt is NOT controlling who will call you. The people that put their names on the list are controlling who will call (or not call) THEM. Needed repeating...
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posted on
09/24/2003 5:18:09 PM PDT
by
takenoprisoner
(illegally posting on an expired tag)
To: Stefan Stackhouse
The "im in your neighborhood, can we give you a bid on whatever home improvement" calls are just as dispicable if no more so than telemarketers. I hate the bastards!
I make a list of every call I get from any salesman of any kind and tell the caller that his call just put his company on the list of companies that I will never consider buying from under any circumstances!
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posted on
09/24/2003 5:29:02 PM PDT
by
dalereed
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To: Professional
Harassment is already legal, federally and on the State level. It is already illegal to call people for solicitations if they previously told you not to call. Enforcement of this may be a problem...Centralization of the list may make enforcement easier by making it easier for citizens to seek remedy. I don't know how many times I've been asked, after saying "don't call again", whether I was interested in new windows form my house.
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posted on
09/24/2003 8:53:40 PM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
(South-south-west, south, south-east, east....)
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