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Author Topic: US Do Not Call Registry Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-27-2003 10:34 AM                     The US Government's Do Not Call Registry is up and running. Go to www.donotcall.gov to register your phone numbers and cut down on the telemarketing calls.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-27-2003 11:10 AM                        It appears to be overloaded at this time. It started loading and never finished. Imagine how many people are trying to register phone numbers at this time. I'll probably wait until I start getting telemarketer calls again before registering. I changed my phone number last November and got into a new, obscure exchange and have received only one telemarketer call. I've yet to receive one on my cell phone. I fear that registering may get me on the lists to receive calls from the telemarketers that are exempt, so I'll wait a bit.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-27-2003 12:03 PM                     We have had an unlisted number from the start, so we get very few calls. Any we do get usually have that "blank" period at the beginning, and I don't wait. My response when I do get them is to politely say, "I'm not interested" and hang up. I don't understand this obsession in America about taking phone calls. It's my house and my phone, so if I don't want to talk with you I won't. Also, I put Caller ID in about 3 years ago, and it is well worth the excessive amount of money that SBC/Ameritech want. I have read the one of the requirements of the DO NOT CALL list legislation is that sellers are not allowed to block Caller ID. I think it would be great if more people in the US choose to be ON the list than are off. I doubt it will happen, as many people won't even know it exists, but it would be nice to see.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-27-2003 12:28 PM                    Here's a question... If someone signs up on this list and then changes their number, what happens to the original number? Is the phone company required to make sure the old number comes back off the list again?  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-27-2003 01:12 PM                     Mark, That's an interesting question. One other thing I would like to know is how long does a phone company wait to reissue a number to a different client. I am guessing that as time goes by, that period shortens. The Do Not Call registration lasts for a period of five years, so barring anything else, any number would rever to a call list after the five years are up. As an annoying sidebar, when we received our phone number, in our newly built townhome, we started and continue to get phonecalls, both sales and personal, it would seem, for the previous holders of our phone number. I am guessing the turnaround for that number was way too short.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-27-2003 01:47 PM                     I kept getting calls from a collection agency for someone who didn't even live here. Since it was a collection agency, of course they wouldn't believe me if I told them the guy wasn't here or didn't live here anymore, so they kept calling to get ahold of him. It finally stopped when I told them to check the [expletive] phone listings and see that this [expletive] person doesn't live here, and threatened them with a harassment lawsuit. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-27-2003 07:20 PM                     I added my number to the list, and had little problem in getting through to the website. CNN reports the site is getting 108 hits every second, so I guess that is a lot of traffic. It would be nice if there were a way to add business phone numbers to this list (I assume the "do not call" list only applies to residential numbers). Today, we had some scumbag call up pretending to be an employee of the International Sign Association (our sign company is a member of this organization). He gets by our front desk only to turn out to be some asshole selling bill collection services. I think some of the most callous, dishonest people breathing air are bill collectors. They must be sociopaths with no ability to feel anything to do the crap they do. Anyway, that really inspired me to go ahead and register. I had been mulling it over, thinking about the overall toll it will have against the advertising industry. But that liar pretty well convinced me the direct phone marketing thing needs to die. Perhaps some of that money saved on phone marketing might give some struggling graphic artists a few jobs and breathe more life into print layout.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-27-2003 09:45 PM                       Couldn't agree with you more, Bobby. It needed to die 15 years ago.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-27-2003 10:04 PM                     Now that this is available, we just need a "no email spam" list. Of course this should be punishable with a $1 million fine to the receiver of each email as well as full life in jail, with no possibility of early release.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 06-27-2003 10:04 PM                     As soon as the New York State "Do Not Call" registry was set up, thanks to our politicos up in Albany, I registered our two home lines. It took several months before the ban became noticeably effective, but then telemarketing calls stopped. Most annoying were the scams pretending to collect money for the orphans of policemen killed in the line of duty. (They gave the feeling the callers were policemen, but when I asked their precinct and badge numbers, they had to admit they weren't.) Now we only get calls from the local papers selling subscriptions once and a while. A weakness of this state registry is that it only applied to members of the National Telemarketing Association, and didn't apply to non-profit organizations, but those groups soon stopped calling also. I just finished registering our home and office phones (and even our FAX #--it couldn't hoit!) online. It took only a couple of minutes, but the confirmation emails have not yet arrived. I'm hoping it will work with our FAX machine, which is the expensive waster of office time, facility, film and paper.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-27-2003 10:51 PM                     I got mine registered. I wonder how the telematketers are going to modify their "randum generated numbers" program in their computers? I can hear them howl now....  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-28-2003 02:20 AM                     I just got my number registered.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-28-2003 03:50 AM                        [QUOTE]I have read the one of the requirements of the DO NOT CALL list legislation is that sellers are not allowed to block Caller ID./QUOTE] Frequently, they buy telco circuits that don't lend themselves to Caller ID right out of the box. It's a way they can block thier number without specifically buying a blocking feature or activating it by dialing a code. Another thing they seem to like, IF their numbers do pass ID is to buy a bunch of lines, powerdial the crap out of them for a few days, then disconnect them and get new lines. When you try to track down the original number, they're long gone.  |  IP: Logged John Scott Master Film Handler Posts: 252 From: Oakdale, MN, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-28-2003 04:18 AM                     Has anyone else been having trouble registering from the Do Not Call list? I've tried about 3 times now within the last 2 days to register my home number but the system won't send me the necessary email confirmation. And I'm smart enough to know I am entering my email address correctly.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-28-2003 05:15 AM                     I signed up for the Texas No Call list last fall and haven't received a single telemarketing call since. Best couple of bucks I've ever spent! Anyway, I would assume the website servers are getting one heck of a beating from everyone trying to register their names. I would recommend you bookmark the site and do it in a couple of weeks.  |  IP: Logged

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