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

Scott wrote:
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.

I believe that's required by law. I do NOT believe they'd do it if it
wasn't required by law. A lot of these companies will NOT do so if you
use the wrong language, e.g. "take me off your list", "quit calling me";
holding exactly to the letter of the law, they will blast you with
calls until you precisely ask to be put *onto* their do-not-call list.

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 agree this is a travesty. I have resolved to vote against any
candidate for any office who spams my phone, regardless of how much
I might have wanted that person in office. So far I have done that.

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.

The few who've called me without legal permission were very, very good
at hiding the origins of their calls. Believe me, if I thought I had
enough on any one of them to take them into small claims court, I'd
be there in a flash for my $500.

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