I just registered for the National Do Not Call List. You can register online at
https://www.donotcall.gov/. Has anyone else here used this service?
I loathe calls from commercial and political and market research people. I'm not even that big a fan of talking to my friends on the phone. Just don't care for the phone. So I definitely do not want to refinance or critique news shows because some stranger on an autodialer gave me a ring.
I was finally prompted to find out how to do the Do Not Call registration when I received a pretty late call from the market research people who were dying to here my opinion of some local news show. They had the most irritating voice ever recorded telling my answering machine about the survey. They were probably hired by a competing local news show.
It is actually surprisingly easy to register for the Do Not Call list and, once registered, you can apparently make things difficult for telemarketers who violate your wishes because
https://www.donotcall.gov/ is a government site and has provisions for complaints to be filed against those who continue to ring your phone after a 31 day grace period to allow them to update their lists.
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