Disconnecting Telemarketers

Anonymous Scientist at UMass sent in a story about opt-out telemarketing laws, and several people submitted this story about a spam bill in the Senate. New York's telemarketing law does work - since we put our number on the list, we've gotten a couple of calls from charities (not covered by the law) and a couple of calls from Time-Warner Cable, asking us to sign up for cable. Time-Warner's calls would be banned, except that we have a pre-existing business relationship with them - you see, we already have cable. Update: 05/18 15:30 GMT by M : Oh, and if you live in New York: NYNoCall.com.

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Re:The obvious solution...

[TellarHK]

IDT Telecommunications in rural, depressing Calais, Maine. Right on North Street across from the police station. Telemarketers abound there, but beware! The place is a known druggie hangout and had a problem with needles in the trash a while ago. So if you go in there, make like it's vampires you're gunning for because you don't want to get any infections.

And don't worry about the police station, we've got like five cops.