Do Not Call List Ruled Illegal

from the so-much-for-that-plan... dept

Excited about the national "Do Not Call" list scheduled to take effect in one week? Don't get too excited. A federal judge in Oklahoma now says the list is illegal and FTC has no authority to create such a list. I'm sure the Direct Marketing Association, who brought the lawsuit, are going to rejoice by calling everyone to gloat (and try to sell you some stuff).
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    ScooterBoy, 24 Sep 2003 @ 9:18am

    uh oh.

    um. does that mean they can use the "do not call" list as a "call" list now?

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  2. identicon
    Monte, 24 Sep 2003 @ 9:40am

    Feel free to call them can hang up.

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  3. identicon
    data64, 24 Sep 2003 @ 2:51pm

    Enlightening post

    A very interesting post about this on Slashdot.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 11 Sep 2009 @ 10:26pm

    faq u

    link to this | view in thread ]


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