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   dorpus, 26 Sep 2003 @ 7:14pm

   
   

   Extradition Solution

   Could we partner with some undemocratic country like Saudi Arabia or North Korea, so that they issue the death penalty against spammers? Then spammers who send to mailboxes owned by someone in that country could then be extradited, where they are decapitated.
   
   Or we could force them to provide "community service" by working for the peace corps in Afghanistan, which amounts to the same thing.
   

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   Beck, 26 Sep 2003 @ 7:46pm

   
   

   Do Not Call Needs to be All-Inclusive

   The editorial is being disingenuous about the Do Not Call list with regard to the first amendment ruling. The judge never said that telemarketers have a constitutional right to annoy people with phone calls. What he actually said is that the rule violates the first amendment because it prohibits commercial telemarketer calls but allows calls by charitable organizations and political groups. The reasoning is that the federal government is making a distinction about whether or not a call is allowed based on the content of the call.
   
   The obvious solution is that the Do Not Call regulations must prohibit ALL calls. Congress fixed the first judge's objection, but what are the odds that they'll ram through Congress a bill that prohibits political fundraising calls?

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   Anonymous Coward, 27 Sep 2003 @ 10:40pm

   
   

   So... Dress your SPAM up as...

   ...satire and you should be well within the law.

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   westpac, 29 Sep 2003 @ 5:20am

   
   

   get caller ID

   If the caller ID says UNAVAILABLE I don't answer it. Saves me a lot of trouble, though I'd prefer the damn phone not ring at all unless it's someone I want to talk to.

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   Oliver Wendell Jones, 29 Sep 2003 @ 11:34am

   
   

   Re: get caller ID

   Get a Caller ID box that comes with a call blocking feature. Mine does.
   
   When I receive a call from someone I don't want to hear from again, I press the Copy To button and select Phonebook or Block List.
   
   If I select Block List and the person calls back the box picks up the phone and then hangs it up.
   
   If I press Phonebook it copies it to it's 'permanent' memory of which it has 64K so it stores a lot of phone numbers.

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