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.

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Personally...

[Chocolate Teapot]

...I don't really have a problem with telemarketers. Unlike spammers, each telemarketer can only hit one 'victim' at a time, they are not anonymous (they can't withhold their number) and will more often than not leave you alone if you say "I'm sorry, but you are wasting your time. Please remove me from your list." These are just people who are trying to scrape a living. This list is probably a good thing, but I really think that people are overreacting.