Re: Anyone else get TXT Message Spam from Cingular lately?

clifto <clifto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Scott wrote:
clifto <clifto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scott wrote:
clifto <clifto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whether that entity has a right to do so
is irrelevant.

Except that the law was not written that way. Your intended
outcome would not supercede the regulation. The law allows
exceptions- the do-not-call list is not the end all, be all that
many people wrongly think it is.

You may have missed my last sentence.

The fact that I am able to fart loudly in church, and probably not
even get kicked out for it, doesn't mean it's not excessively
annoying and downright rude. The same goes for the telesleaze.

Understood, but legislating annoying and rude behavior would require
another new arm of the government to handle the volume.

While they were writing the TCPA, they had to go out of their way to
include language exempting bozos from the rules. They put deliberation
and hard work into giving them permission to abuse their relationships
with their customers. This is not a case of needing special
legislation to make them conform to the rules, which your comment
might address, but one of going out of their way to please the
telesleaze operations.


Again understood, but I don't see how the "Telesleaze operators" were
pleased by this. There are only a few exceptions to the DNC:

- non-profit organizations
- political calls (you don't actually expect them to cut off their own
noses, do you?) - companies with which you have had a working business
relationship in the last ? years (I don't remember the timeframe)

Most companies (Cingular included) do give you the ability to opt-out of
scenario three, which is interestingly enough the only exception that
you can opt to exclude. Personally, I find the "public service calls"
from G Dubya and Babs Streisand around election time to be much more
obnoxious and intrusive, and yet I can't tell them not to call.

I fail to see where the telemarketers were given any slack. If you're
getting calls from someone who doesn't meet one of the exclusions above,
reprt them to the FCC. There were some big and well publicized fines
handed out when the national DNC was first instituted. As time went on,
people stopped reporting telemarketers as much.

I have yet to get any calls from anyone but the local ARC store and a
ton of politicians at election time (and I've been on the list since its
inception). I don't get any calls from any of my service providers
because I did request them to take me off thier calling lists. I
haven't had to tell anyone twice.
.

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