RE: Do Not Call....

[Gone-Camping]

 
I think this new Do Not Call registry is a great idea! Some states have had these for a while, but those of us without this is truely something new!
 
 Now all we need is for someone to invent the DO NOT SPAM registry and we d be really cruisin..... [][8D]

[wahoonc]

 Gone-Camping
The problem with the Do Not Call Registry is that it still has too many holes in it. They still allow calls from companies that you do business with or have done business with in the last 18 months. I have already put two on notice that if I recieve one more " courtesy call"  from them I will cancel their services, but I will have to put up with their calls for another year and a half. Out of 9 sales calls that I recieved yesterday only 3 would have been affected by the registry. Course I can usually smell a sales call before the phone rings and just tell them I am house sitting and to call back in 3-4 weeks that the owner is over seas[][8D]
 
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[labontefan]

 Gone-Camping
Call Intercept...it s the only way to go!!  Verizon offers it in my area; don t know who else offers it. For $5/month, all unidentified calls are intercepted and blocked. If it s a legitimate call, the caller has the option of recording their name. Your phone rings (a special 3-ring tone to identify it as an intercepted call) and when you answer it, you get a recording telling you about the intercepted call. When you listen to the recording of who it is, you have the option of 1) taking the call, 2) refusing the call, 3) sending it to voice mail (if you have voice mail), or 4) refusing the call and having the caller hear a " Do not call; take me off your list"  message.
 
 If you have friends or relatives that may call from a phone the system would see as unidentified (sometimes cell phones don t show up on the caller ID), you can give them a 4-digit code number that you have chosen. If they start to get the intercept message, they just enter the number and their call goes through.
 
 I ve had Call Intercept for about two years now, and I might have gotten 2 dozen telemarketing calls in that amount of time! (If they call from an identifiable phone number, the call will come through. But about 99% call from undentifiable phones.) I think it s well worth the $5/month!

[Jeffrey]

 Gone-Camping
There are alot holes in the one we have here.
 Not sure about the new national one. At least it s a start.
 
 Here if they don t directly try to make the sale on the phone, it s still OK.
 So they can call to try and get you to attend something.
 
 Charities also can still call. I haven t really noticed a decrease since ours started.

[Gone-Camping]

 Gone-Camping
There is one thing that bothers me about the registry. While it may go a long way towards curtailing telemarketers, I m curious about how many good solid email address they are harvesting from this.... the numbers will be in the millions. While they may not use it themselves, it would be worth a lot of money to the spammers!!! Hmmmmm

[wiininkwe]

 Gone-Camping
I let caller ID and my answering machine handle my calls.   If it says " Out of Area"  or " Unidentified call"  or even " Private caller"   i just don t answer and then if it s someone that reallt knows me, I can pick it up when they start to leave a message.  If not, I just don t respond.  Most of them go dead as soon as the answering machine picks it up, anyway.
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