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National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations
prockcore writes "The National Do Not Call Registry is up and running. Sign up so most telemarketers cannot call you starting October 1st. There are exemptions though, like for charities and political organizations." Note that many of the states which have opened their own registries will be sharing that data with the national list, so you may not have to re-register - check and see what your state is doing.
already slashdooted and no posts, i love the gov'
Wow, slashdotted before the article was even posted to non-subscribers...
I think this is a new record: Slashdotted in negative 37 seconds
But seriously, I like screwing with telemarketers heads too much to put my number on this list anyway.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-Xenocrates
Is there a national call list? I am lonely and would like to get more phone calls please.
they require a valid email address to register your phone number online
They said valid, but they didn't say mine!
bgates@microsoft.com
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donotcall.gov ... does that imply I should not call on the government for anything, or does it mean I should not call the government on the stupid stuff it does. Either way, both are probably true...
Accentuate the positive, don't waste your mod points on the negative.
Here's my next question, where the hell is my http://donotemail.gov ???
Scum of the earth, scum of the earth.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
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Simply sign up for an AOL account. Or put a valid phone number in your Yahoo E-mail Account. Or you could even go so far as to fill out all of those "Enter to win a car" contests at the local Mall.
You didn't actually expect them to set it up using anything more complicated than an MS-Access database on IIS did you?
Can you say: Server not responding?
but if this were done in J2EE the design team would still be arguing about which open source middleware to use.
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well it were done quickly... MacBeth
I have had several ladies tell me that I was on their don't call list. How can one get this entry cleared?
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
...the telemarketers DoS'ed the site first. Bastards!
Isn't there something inherently wrong about slashdotting a anti-telemarketing site? I'm all for it (well, against it depending on your pov) and I'm sure the news headlines will include "Federal do not call list swamped with over 3 million users in first 12 hours." Unfortunately its looking like about 4 of those 3 million users will actually be able to sign up.
Also, what's with the e-mail address requirement? Is that so people don't sign thier neighbors up to not get calls at dinnertime or something?
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
My answering machine always says '0' too, but I wish it didn't. Of course, here I am, replying to a slashdot post, so I don't think that's going to change in the near future.
I don't get called at all. I had my phone turned off. I swear to Gawd, I used to get at least five phone calls a night from solicitors. Now, I get none!
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The site donotcall.gov is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on unknown.
nuff sed!
It's kind of sad that they'll be going away, really. Oh how I'll miss that ever-present 10 second pause before they say hello. Or how they talk to my answering machine for a few minutes before they realize no one is there (with the general interest in telemarketing I could understand the confusion). And of course who can overlook the sheer amount of interesting stories they can provide a person.
For example like the time I answered the phone only to find a telemarketer in the midst of conversation with her "girlfrient" Brandy in the next cubicle. This one didn't even bother to say hello, just kept on talking. At least she was kind enough to eventually tell me to, "Hold on minute, will you?" Or perhaps the one time I kindly the told the telemarketer that I wasn't interested in their offer and he promptly told me to screw off in his own expletive-ridden way. My favorite, however, was the time I told one I was actually interested in their product just for kicks.
Sales Drone: "Excuse me, sir? Did you say you were interested?"
Me: "Yeah, that's right."
Sales Drone: "No one is ever interested, sir. I'm not even sure how to make a sale."
(Sets phone down and yells to his associates)
Sales Drone: "Anyone here ever make a sale before!?"
(Short pause)
Sales Drone: "I'm going to have to get you a manager. Can we call you back?"
Seriously, will anyone miss these people?
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And it'll probably require you to call in from that number, so Bob Effbeeaye will know exactly where you are at that moment!
Our only hope is if they turn it over to private industry, like Comcast, which is apparently run by such a lot of bureaucrats that nobody knows where anyone is, what their status is and nothing gets done without a bunch of phone calls which eventually get you to some guy named Fred who works out of a broomcloset in Cincinatti and is the only one in the whole company who can actually get anything done (and he's not an employee, but a social engineer who got bored of highschool and decided to pretend he has a job.)
If the FBI, CIA and other assorted snoops can't unravel something like Enron, you know it's because bureaucracies don't interface well.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Damn!
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Yeah, but that's even worse! Then they'll have a *phone number* to link to my ph....oh. Nevermind.
Hey, is it just me or did we manage to /. the registration site? Their server seems to be curled up fetal on the bottom of the rack right now. Good job guys.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Sweet, I was wondering what to do with my 1 Billion monkeys and computers. They really haven't produced anything of worth lately, "Blurst of times"? what the shit is that.
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That's not his email address. sorry.
That's okay. I just used steve@apple.com instead!
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Next: National Do Not /. Registry
/. effect.
Their site is feeling the
I fooled them I registered with a false name, false phone number, AND a false email address.
Now if I could just get my phone to stop ringing.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
They already have your number. This is not like email harvesting.
And they'd have to be particularly dense to use that strategy. "Let's see, here is a list of people who have specifically and in no uncertain terms stated that they do not like to be called by telemarketers. Let me call them and try to sell them something".
Really, like selling Windows licenses at a Linuxfest. Good luck.
Ah, yes, but this only shows your lack of sophistication. Believing the government, how quaint. This would be a much better response, guaranteed to get you boatloads of positive moderation:
"The DoNotCall registry has a privacy policy which states that the e-mail address is only used for confirmation and will be stored separately from the phone numbers. Fortunately, I am too wise to fall for this dastardly scheme thought up by the evil genius of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Because of my vaunted sophistication, I know for certain that this is a fig leaf to cover the insertion of this data into the TIA database run by the war criminals Don Rumsfeld and John Poindexter. Further, thanks to my superior intellectual ability, I am sure that the oil barons who control GWB will use the e-mail addresses for spamming in an effort to make even more money. The only way for us to be safe is to hope that Howard Dean is elected this year. And, of course, to make sure that the Supreme Court doesn't get a chance to rig the election again. Until that happens, I will be much too smart to include myself on this purported "DoNotCall" List, which I think will be sold by the Republican Party to the highest bidder."
See, that wasn't so hard! Now you too can comment on political issues here at Slashdot and reap the ever increasing karma rewards!
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For some reason I don't think the freedom of speech should include the ability to irritate. If it is a "right" to use telemarketing, then it should also be a right to stand in the lobby of some mega-corporation touting a "free willy" sign. Both are invasions of property.
--WooooHoooo--
If a non-profit organization calls you, remember that the people they hire to do this crap read from scripts and are under orders to not hang up untill they try every angle on you. Take this opportunity to ask them what they are wearing. Tell them how much telemarketers turn you on. And above all feel free to scream wild orgasmic yulps as every offer they make gets you hotter and hotter....
-Cnik
AP - Redmond, WA
The national "Do Not Call List" website opened for business today promising the citizens of America freedom from dinnertime solicitations. Unfortunately, the server has come under massive attack from what can only be assumed to be terrorist telemarketing OSDN subordinates. The cell, identified by a cryptic symbol of a forward slash followed by a period have admitted responsibility for their actions, and continue to hammer the server.
A local anonymous CFO admitted that he himself has had trouble with this organization before, then excused himself to read his email from support@yahoo.com.