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  Bob Dole, 27 Jun 2003 @ 4:34am

  
  

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  The "political message" trick won't work -- they need to be a non-profit organization. :)
  
  Call the FCC or FTC when you get a scam caller, and if they can catch the company they'll be fined $11,000 for each call they're caught making.

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    Glenn, 27 Jun 2003 @ 8:00am

    
    

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    Okay, if this will actually work for phone calls (and I'm a bit skeptical; I actually wonder that if I register my cell phone, if I'll suddenly start to get telemarkting phone calls there), then why couldn't this work for spam. Creat the email database. Anyone sending out spam will have to pay the $11,000 or whatever fine per offense. It won't take a lot of legal examples before it has some impact.

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  paul, 27 Jun 2003 @ 7:53pm

  
  

  from Edupage

  The way I see it, it has no effect. Just a lot of hot air.
  
  
  FEDERAL DO-NOT-CALL LIST OPEN FOR BUSINESS
  The federal do-not-call list went into operation this week, taking
  phone numbers from citizens who want not to be called by telemarketers.
  Similar to do-not-call lists in many states, the federal list will be
  made available to telemarketers, for a fee. Companies found to have
  called numbers on the list face fines of up to $11,000 per call.
  Exceptions are made for politicians, nonprofit groups, those conducting
  surveys, and companies with whom the person being called has an
  existing business relationship. The phone numbers on some of the state
  do-not-call lists automatically transferred to the federal list. People
  in states whose lists do not transfer will have to add their numbers
  separately to the federal list. The list is administered by both the
  Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, a
  combination that covers some wide loopholes in early plans for the
  list.
  Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2003 (sub. req'd)
  

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  TM, 30 Jun 2003 @ 9:39am

  
  

  Screen Machine

  I bought a Screen Machine for $49.95. It has been 100-percent effective in stopping telemarketing calls so far (I've had it about a year). It does throw some personal callers off the first time, but more often than not people who call me seem to think it's a great idea.

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