U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way?

WinkyN writes "Yay! The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a measure that creates a national "do not call" list for telemarketers. Telemarketers are required to check the list every three months and can be fined up to $11,000 each time they violate the law. Now I won't have to ignore my telephone when it rings since more than 50 percent of my calls are from telemarketers." Congress is just getting around to passing a budget bill to run the government for fiscal year 2003 (started last October), and we're now in the time period when everything and the kitchen sink gets thrown into it just before it passes. Good to know that there's at least one useful piece of legislation.

Comments

National Do Not Email list is needed

[Ozor]

Please pass this BiLL !!!!!!!!!!!

U.S. National Do-Not-Spam Registry On the Way?

[Castaa]

Could a U.S. National Do-Not-Spam E-mail Registry be on the way soon after this?

One would hope it would be since the Telemarketer lobby has to be much more powerful (read: rich and more organized) than the spam E-mail marketing lobby.

For the love of Pete let's hope so! Spam for me over the last 3 months has probably doubled in volume.