Telcos Play Both Sides of Telemarketing War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 30, 2002 @07:20AM from the we-own-your-dial-tone dept.

Monoman writes "Most Slasdot readers already know this but CNN has an article about how the telcos are reaping profits from selling your phone number to the telemarketers, and selling customers ways to block the telemareketers, and selling telemarketers ways to get around the customers who are paying to have telemarketers blocked and... I think you get the picture. It is nice to see stuff like this in the mainstream media." So either both sides pay the local Baby Bell for its protection racket, or you just pass a law and the problem goes away.

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Re:Georgia has the same type of system. It works, by A+Big+Gnu+Thrush · 2002-10-30 07:32 · Score: 1, Offtopic

This is the first time I've seen a sight /.ed from a link in a comment.
Go, Georgia!
Re:Georgia has the same type of system. It works, by Zathrus · 2002-10-30 08:07 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Baen books got /.'d by a link in a signature before.

The GA No Call site appears to be run on an XT with a 2400 bps modem. It's down every time I try to get to it.