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Telemarketers Plan Counterattack
Chris Hoofnagle writes "CNN reports that companies who heavily use telemarketing are planning to counterattack consumers with a barrage of spam and junk mail in October, when the new do-not-call registry goes into effect. Slashdotters should be aware that, as well as anti-spam email software, there are tools to avoid junk snail-mail, such as Junkbusters' free Declare, Private Citizen's excellent service and the Postal Service's Prohibitory Order service, which is described at the EPIC privacy page."
Maybe if they up the junk mail, someone at the post office will go...
POSTAL
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DAMN, I'm lame.
maybe now is the time to add some Class A blocks to my router such as:
210.0.0.0/8 (Asia)
211.0.0.0/8 (more Asia)
200.0.0.0/8 (Latin America/Caribbean)
Let's face it, the whole area is 99% garbage and any legit asian company is going to have a much more local front anyway.
I'm soooo glad there is a garbage can near my mail box. I forsee Democratic presidential candidates protesting against my filling of landfills.
There is no right to go into someones house and annoy them. I can have a no tresspass sign on my lawn; this is the equivlent for a telephone.
nothing forces you to have a publicly available telephone. get a private phone from a company that DOES NOT sell/distribute your number. nothing forces you to watch television, but the channels are there, beaming onto your property filled with annoying commercials! by the same token, these annoying marketing ploys should be outlawed and the companies should be fined for marketing over these public airways (radio/tv, even any quiet marketing such as the "friends" cast drinking a budweiser should be banned and fined heavily).
you're right that companies don't have right, but what about individual businesses? a lawn care service trying to market itself to the community, etc. do these people have rights? regardless of weather a company has rights, is it the job of a federal government to police a business such that if a business is annoying to the people, then the government can put that business out of business? i believe that there's something in the constitution which prohibits restriction of inter-state commerce. this effectively restricts inter-state trade. company A from IOWA cannot now market itself anymore.
once again, this problem space should be handled by the free market and by technology (it's a technological problem). get a conmmunication method (phone, email, pager, whatever) from a provider which restricts access to whom may contact you.
the telemarketing folks will find new and innoventive ways to attempt to stay alive. perhaps they'll start sending pages to pagers if that's aloud. then the consumer will be the one calling the telemarketers. perhaps the pizza hut delivery line will have adverts for others before you get to order your pizza.
not the job of the federal government.
Businesses are supposed to provide products and services, not shove them down our throats. It is our choice what we buy anyway, isn't it?
In Bushland (Amerika), what you buy CHOOSES YOU.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
For about 3 months I made calls for my University trying to get donations to different projects (Yes I was paid). And it was just a job, a crappy one, but I needed the money to help me get through school.
You couldn't pass the test on how to make change at McDonald's, could you?
I'm the urban spaceman babe, but here comes the twist... I don't exist