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"I don't see why people were for this list."

You can hang no solitation signs if door to door salesmen become a problem. Without this list, there is no way to put a no solicitation sign on your phone number.

It's the intrusive nature of telemarketing. Who wants to spend every minute of their home life hanging up on telemarketers. Give us a way to tell them not to even call.

every minute of their home life

THis is the crux of the biscuit. It wasn't so bad back in the old days until the last ten years or so when it's gotten to where they will call 8-10 times per day. Also, so many of the pitches are not on the level and these telemarketers have used the phone to bilk people, many of them elderly, out of millions of dollars.

You can hang no solitation signs if door to door salesmen become a problem. Without this list, there is no way to put a no solicitation sign on your phone number.

Exactly!!!< emphasis, emphasis, emphasis.......... damnit.

You can hang no solitation signs if door to door salesmen become a problem. Without this list, there is no way to put a no solicitation sign on your phone number.

If I were selling door to door, it would cost me nothing to see your "no solicitation" sign. Compliance would be easy and cost me nothing.

Compliance with the proposed regs for the DNC registry requires an annual expenditure of over $7K per year, regardless of how small the firm might be or how infrequently they might initiate phone calls to residences. Compliance is difficult and costly.

I would have no problem with this thing if the FTC were to simply provide a free single number look-up service on the web. This would be a reasonable accomodation for small businesses that have an occasional need to make an initial phone contact with someone, but who are not into doing massive telemarketing. Unfortunately, the system that the FTC has actually implemented only provides for such a lookup systems for a total of five user-selected area codes. To get access to the whole list, EVEN IF YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK UP ONE NUMBER PER YEAR, costs over $7K. That is the real flaw in the FTC's implementation.