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Don't call me, I'll call... well, not you.
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Colorado people: the legislature has passes a law to let people register to not receive telemarketing calls. Dave explains it all here, and provides a link you can use to register your name.

Maybe.

Apparently AT&T is balking at using the list compilied by the non-profit org that got the bill passed to begin with. Several reasons come to mind:

They hate the bill, because they telemarket.
They hate the bill, because they currently charge people 3-5 bucks a month for the same priviledge this law affords.
A ready-made list means the PUC would have a big list people RIGHT OFF THE BAT that they couldn’t call, instead of building the list gradually.

My prediction on the next bit of legal bull coming from AT&T — we can only afford to update our list of no-calls with the ‘official’ list of no-calls once per month, or less. (Which is bull… they could syndicate it from the PUC to their intranet with xml. Anyway.)

Comments

oh. I wish that was true in Michigan.
I hate the companies that telemarket.
I do try to be nice to the poor schmucks getting paid minimum wage to annoy me. I give them the benefit of the doubt. They can't be enjoying their jobs, can they?

posted by jenn, December 12, 2001 10:59 AM

Oregon, home of the *true* 2nd best team in Div 1 football, has a similar deal.

We sign up and there is always a recording if you have a blocked number or are otherwise hidden, it has a message that you can press one if you are not a marketer. There's a 500 or 1500 dollar fine if you are a marketer and break the rules.

We just got the new database system, but I'm switching back to the old way.

The only negative point is that my loft's access phone at the front always thinks it's blocked and it's hell on the pizza man and people coming to visit.

posted by Clovis, December 12, 2001 11:11 AM