Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008

Ant writes "Yahoo! News report that the cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national/United States (U.S.)'s Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which oversees the list, says there is a simple fix. But some lawmakers think it is a hassle to expect people to re-register their phone numbers every five years. Numbers placed on the registry, begun in June 2003, are valid for five years. For the millions of people who signed onto the list in its early days, their numbers will automatically drop off beginning next June if they do not enroll again."

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Re:Does the DNC list even mean anything?

[ajs]

Booth was a patriot I always wonder about people who say this. It's a horribly ambiguous statement. It could mean that you feel that Booth was acting in a patriotic way in killing the President of the United States (kind of an odd thing to think, but there it is). The other take would be that Booth, a patriot, committed the most unpatriotic of acts in the name of this misguided sentiment. Presumably this would be intended as a cautionary comment on the nature of blind patriotism.

I just don't see how such a deeply ambiguous comment is a useful expression (unless it's just intended to annoy people like me that actually pay attention to what other say, but then wouldn't this be counter-productive in the extreme... encouraging only people who don't take you seriously?)

Re:Does the DNC list even mean anything?

[nurb432]

Its there to make people think. In your case, it seems to have done its job.