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Today is a good day for a lot of us here!
FTC's national 'Do Not Call' registry is live. Enter your phone number(s) to stop telemarketers from calling.
http://www.donotcall.gov/
w00t w00t! Its about damn time!
The site seems to be sufferning right now... as its hit or miss if I get into it.
It's prolly been slashdotted... :D
Yeah i posted a thread about it in cosmos this morning. :p
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=245431
Either way, it's about damn time! ! ! :D
ah, didn't see your post... ah well, I'll leave this on the front page for a while, or a mod can delete it. It won't let me delete it... :( oh well...
No worries, atleast this way it will get more action. :)
Damn Phish..... I think I love you...... ;)
I have my home answering machine call my cell when someone leaves a message..... It has been a most annoying trait of the tele-jerk-offs to have a recording of them leave a message on mine for the last 2 years....... Now I can stop them if this things actually works.....<s>
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Oh..... BTW..... This definitely deserves to be on the front page
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Is it me or is the link not working? Maybe TOO many people are on the site trying to get their phone number blocked, and the servers overloaded? Either that or maybe it's getting hit by SPAM. Wouldn't that be funny, the DO NOT CALL website gets trashed by SPAM... I can see the headlines now...
Anyway just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem...
~AciD
AFAIK everyone is having that problem. Everyone here, there, etc.
Its been /.ed
It took a while but I got in..... Once in it isn't too bad.... I'm awaiting the email as we speak..... Of course this now means that the gubmint can associate my phone numbers with my email address but frankly, its worth the "loss"
My guess is that since it was on my local news last night, it probably was on a lot of local news stations. I haven't been able to get on since 6 pm last night. ;)
Man I REALLY have to start watching TV again! But I have been hitting reload every minute for about the past 5 minutes and finally got in. Though Tiger you did not stress how SLOW it is to get in. But hey, at least now the damn telemarketers will stop calling my damn cell phone. I knew I should have registered all those porn subscriptions using my cell phone number *joking*...
Yeah man, CNN is whoring the piss out of this website. I saw it at about 4am and I jumped on my machine to take care of it immediately.
On a side note, can you paint a bigger bullseye on a potential target??? Imagine the number of good e-mail addresses this system will be housing? Sure hope they have a good IT shop running the server.
--TH13
Call 1-888-382-1222 if you live west of the mississippi this # will let you do the same thing as the website only it is alot easier to get through on.
Why only have a phone number that works west of the Mississippi? Yeah I'm surprised they are taking the time to do a phone operation at all, because they should know for the next like week a TON of people will be calling, because of having issues with the web probably.
~AciD
They are having the number work only for people west of the Mississippi to handle the volume, on a certain date I dont remember when then the # will work for those east of the mississippi to breakup the congestion. Go here to read an article on yahoo about it.Quote:
Why only have a phone number that works west of the Mississippi?
OH ok that makes more sense. Thanks for the URL all_smiles
~AciD
Even if you get on that list, it won't start for like another six months. Until that time you can buy a device called "telezapper." A lot of you have probably heard of it. When you pick up the phone, the telezapper emits a tone which mimics the one yuo get when you call a number that has been disconnected. It happens for less than a second so it isn't annoying. What happens is that when a telemarketer calls you with their computer, you pick up the phone and it produces the tone. Their computer thinks that your number has been disconnected and they remove you from their list. Hence, that company never cals you again. One the glorious day when the no call list kicks in though, none of this will matter.
-NeuTron
Actually the offical website said that if you register around now it would start sometime in August. And I think it also said that if you register in September or after, that it would only take up to 3 months.
Personally I trust something that goverment does than a little iMac looking device that SAYS it will stop them from calling back. Plus I bet even if the computer thinks that a number is disconnected, that it goes into another catagory rather than being deleted from the database. A catagory that might try to call that number once every month until it's back up and running because another family is using it. Or maybe it just sells the number to another company that does that. Who knows...
Just a thought...
~AciD
I was only suggesting a temporary solution. Of course the list is going to be wonderful but I hate telemarketers so much that I do anything no to get their calls. Also it looks nothing like an iMac and reduced my number of calls by about eighty percent. The "call list" I signed up for in California won't kick in until late October or maybe even later.Quote:
Originally posted here by AciDriveHB
Personally I trust something that goverment does than a little iMac looking device that SAYS it will stop them from calling back.
LOL, I thought NeuTron was actually reading off the comercial! Sounds like you've seen it quite a few times.
Now, if I can only find a way to make my TV ignore that FUC**NG Video Professor commercial... ;)
do they even have a commercial?
*falls on the floor laughing* I think I have been online for WAYYYY too long today, I can't even read correclty anymore.
*slaps face*
Too much text!!
LOL but yes NeuTron are you sure you are not a drone sent here by the CORPORATION? heheh...
Ok you guys got me......
If youd like to make an order you can send cash or money order to:
NeuTron
TeleZapper Inc.
420 Infomercial Lane
San Francisco, CA 94901
LOL......
now what is wrong with the video professor products?!? turned me into a l337 hax0r didn't it? LoLQuote:
Now, if I can only find a way to make my TV ignore that FUC**NG Video Professor commercial...
How else do you expect to learn to control your mouse, AND click on the start button ALL in one day!? sheesh....
/sarcasm
I just registered... :P
As all_smiles pointed out you can call the number. However this number is nationwide. Not just for one particular state
1-800-328-1222
You must call from the phone you wish to put on the list. If you are already registered with a state sponsored no call list, you don't need to reinlist for the nationwide no call list.
The Do Not call Webserver is or was overloaded earlier...
Could not get to the registery page
I will say my Tele-Zapper Works wonders as well....
:p
I just got extremely lucky!! Took less than a minute to get in and out.
Thanks for the link. I had forgotten to register until I saw the post here.
The loopholes our legislators left open: calling for charity, political action committees.
We can still get the boiler room calls that collect a 75% finder fee and forward 25% to the agency they're supposedly collecting for.