National Do Not Call Registry Update

[DCBluesman]

The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years. Many of us signed up in 2003, so our numbers will fall off the list in 2008. You can re-register, here https://www.donotcall.gov/register/Reg.aspx and your will be on the Do Not Call list for 5 more years. You can register all personal phone numbers including cell phones. If you have more than 3 numbers to register, you will have to submit each group of 3 separately.

 

[Woodlvr]

Thank you Lou.[]

 

[Geo in Winnipeg]

Lucky you. I wish we had something similar up here[]

 

[ed4copies]

Thanks Lou!!

Now, how do I get rid of the politician's phone campaigns???

Oh, and the not-for-profit???

The answering machine solves ALL!!![][][]

 

[gketell]

And the @#$%^&* cable company who thinks that since you are their customer for cable you want to hear about their lousy phone service over and over again. But since you ARE their customer the DoNotCall list DoesNotApply. GRRRR

GK

 

[Ligget]

We have something similar here in the UK. []

 

[kent4Him]

I have found the combination of No-Call list and unlisted phone number does a very good job of eliminating unwanted phone calls. Other than wrong numbers, we average less than one unwanted phone call a month.

 

[Ron in Drums PA]

Originally posted by ed4copies
<br />Thanks Lou!!

Now, how do I get rid of the politician's phone campaigns???

Oh, and the not-for-profit???

The answering machine solves ALL!!![][][]

Hate to tell you this, but they are exempt from the list. You don't think politicians are going to cut their funding, do you?

 

[arioux]

Originally posted by Geo in Winnipeg
<br />Lucky you. I wish we had something similar up here[]

Georges, you can unregister from the Canadian Marketing Association telemarketing list. You will still receive few calls but a lot less about 80%, since all the serious companies member of the association will remove you from their list.
Here is the link to register.

https://cornerstonewebmedia.com/cma/submit.asp

ALfred

 

[rixstix]

Now, how do I get rid of the politician's phone campaigns???

Caller ID with Anonymous Call Block takes care of the majority of the political and non-profit calls for us. If the CallerID is blocked, they get a phone company intercept telling them to unblock the caller ID and try again. The automated dialers dont seem to be able to handle that. We haven't received a call during election season in the past several years.

 

[Randy_]

I saw a piece in the paper today and the situation has changed a little. The FCC or whoever controls the list has announced that the automatic deletion of phone numbers will be placed on hold and no numbers will be deleted as long as there is pending legislation in Congress concerning the list.....which there is. Apparently there is some legislation in Congress that will address the issue of auto-deletion of old numbers. According to what I can discover, the new legislation proposes to eliminate the auto-delete provision since it is no longer needed. Technology has improve enough since the law was originally passed, so it is no longer necessary to use the auto-delete method of house-cleaning inactive numbers.

 

[Malainse]

On the link that Lou provided .....

The Federal Trade Commission will not drop any telephone numbers from the National Do Not Call Registry based on a five-year expiration period pending final Congressional or agency action on whether to make registration permanent. Read more about it at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/10/dnctestimony.shtm.

 

[Randy_]

I forgot to make this comment in my earlier post.

Regardless of what the government decides to do or not do, it only takes about 30 seconds to re-register. So just to be on the safe side, it seems like a nobrainer to re-register and not have to worry about what might hgappen.

 

[Grizzlyss]

Thank You Alfred, that will be a God sent, even if it only works 70%. Thas a lot less interupted meals, althought I guess I could miss a few without any ill effect. LOL

Sheldon

 

[mikes pens]

I actually love to get those phone calls so that I can mess around with the callers. Here is a link to a classic one (not from me though).

[urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_PjRXV5l8[/url]

 

[rhahnfl]

Man that's a good one. Better than Seinfeld's calling back at their place of residence routine. [][}]

 

[bitshird]

Love it, Thats funny[^][^][][:I]
Ken Ferrell