Don't call registry off the map?
Can anyone reach www.donotcall.gov? Seems to be off the map... I guess this is just the publics way of inviting the DMA(Direct Marketing Association) to re-evaulate their assertions that the majority of the populace enjoys receiving telemarketing calls... /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Andy Dills wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Patrick wrote:
Can anyone reach www.donotcall.gov? Seems to be off the map...
Everything's fun and games until somebody posts to Slashdot...
But then, the site loads very quickly for me now. I have an important question, and I know NANOG isn't quite the perfect place for it, but this is an issue that possibly affects many of you, and isn't addressed on their site. I don't currently get soliciting calls on my cell phone. My cell phone is my only phone. If I sign up for the donotcall list, will that just enable the exempt organizations to harvest my number to call me? I'm not so sure I should sign up. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
Making a telemarketing call to a cellphone is already illegal. I think it's under the same law that forbids junk faxes. -C On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:53:32PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Andy Dills wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Patrick wrote:
Can anyone reach www.donotcall.gov? Seems to be off the map...
Everything's fun and games until somebody posts to Slashdot...
But then, the site loads very quickly for me now.
I have an important question, and I know NANOG isn't quite the perfect place for it, but this is an issue that possibly affects many of you, and isn't addressed on their site.
I don't currently get soliciting calls on my cell phone. My cell phone is my only phone. If I sign up for the donotcall list, will that just enable the exempt organizations to harvest my number to call me?
I'm not so sure I should sign up.
Andy
--- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Andy Dills wrote:
I don't currently get soliciting calls on my cell phone. My cell phone is my only phone. If I sign up for the donotcall list, will that just enable the exempt organizations to harvest my number to call me?
My understanding is that it is completely illegal to place unsolicited telephone marketing calls to cell phones, period. The reason being, that by calling your cell phone, they incur a monetary const to you, the receiver of the call - which doesn't happen when they call your home phone number. - d. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Patrick wrote:
Can anyone reach www.donotcall.gov? Seems to be off the map...
I guess this is just the publics way of inviting the DMA(Direct Marketing Association) to re-evaulate their assertions that the majority of the populace enjoys receiving telemarketing calls...
I was able to get the main page around 8am EDT...but even then it was very slow. I entered 3 phone numbers and tried to submit, but it would not accept the connection for my form post. I retried many times around 8am, and again just now, and finally got to steps two and three a few minutes before 1pm. I heard from a few people who got all the way to step three before 8am EDT, but noone had received the email yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
On 27 Jun 2003 at 13:02, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Patrick wrote:
Can anyone reach www.donotcall.gov? Seems to be off the map...
According to fox News the site is getting over 125 sign ups a second, these are sign ups not hits, I'd imagine the site is a bit busy. cheers, nick -- Nick Nelson // USA: 1-877-Lunarpages nick@lunarpages.com // UK: 0800 0729150 Lunarpages.com // INTL: 1-714-521-8150
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