[BlazingArizona]

Enforcement of this may be a problem, but adding more govt is definitely not the answer to the problem. If you've seen the full details for the plan, exemptions, costs, requiremnets, etc, you'd see that this was a monster in the making.

Since the national Do Not Call list signup period began, I've been gettng a lot more calls from telemarketers than before, most of them computer-generated recordings that, unlike the starving-artist types you defend, are not impressed by whatever I might yell back at them or by any instruction to "put me on your do not call list".

Furthermore, they have started to leave messages on my machine, which never happened in the past. If I've been out of the house for the day I have come home to as many as eight of their messages stacked up on my machine. It's as though they have decalred war on the consumer and are trying to get back at us by blowing out the phones before this list goes into operation.

Okay, let's save ourselves the complexity of setting up a DNC list. Let's ban telemarketing in all forms, by anyone, under any circumstances whatever.

[Professional]

Sounds good, well....

Punish legitimate businesses for the abuses of the bad ones. As a Financial Consultant for 11 years, I'm getting SO used to that...

[JimFreedom]

YES! I can't even talk to them anymore. "I won this I won that from the card I left at the mall" NOT! I have had it with this BS. Sometimes I need to answer every ring because of an important call from one of my kids or something. They all need to go, ALONG with 'professional'. Just by the moniker you can see the self centered nature of this BS artist from hell.

When they call tonight, it is going to get REAl UGLY! I should NOT have to buy extra equipment to keep these idiots OFF MY PHONE!

Oh yes, hey 'professional' we are still waiting for your HOME phone number!

NOT TO BE DISTURBED PING!!!!!!!!!!