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| 25 new of 335 responses total. |
keesan
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response 75 of 335:
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Jun 30 00:05 UTC 2003 |
How do the telemarketers get hold of cell phone numbers and isn't that
illegal?
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jep
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response 76 of 335:
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Jun 30 00:05 UTC 2003 |
I submitted the form again to donotcall.gov, using my home e-mail
instead of M-Net, and this time I got a response in a minute or two.
My mother ran across this information, and signed herself up before I
could even tell her about it. I'd say it's working much more smoothly
now than it was at first!
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rcurl
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response 77 of 335:
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Jun 30 01:58 UTC 2003 |
You can ask for donotcall for *any* phone number. Shouldn't there be some
check on you being the account holder for the phones? Not that I would
have minded someone else putting my phones on donotcall, but....gee wiz....
that would be kind of presumptuous.
I got on donotcall.gov with no trouble, and the e-mails came back in just
a few hours.
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beeswing
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response 78 of 335:
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Jun 30 05:18 UTC 2003 |
My parents were majorly happy that I'd put their number on the list.
No, there's no check to see if that is the account holder's number.
I usually got long distance telemarketing calls on my cell. Not very
often, but I want none. So it goes on the list too.
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uty
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response 79 of 335:
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Jun 30 05:48 UTC 2003 |
ok
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dcat
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response 80 of 335:
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Jun 30 05:57 UTC 2003 |
Because of the fact that the subscriber pays for airtime on calls received
as well as sent, telemarketing calls to cellular customers are prohibited.
I'll try to look up chapter & verse in the morning if someone hasn't beaten
me to it.
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aruba
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response 81 of 335:
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Jun 30 14:11 UTC 2003 |
<conspiracy-theory>
I hope this isn't all some government plot to generate a list of numbers
and associate them with email addresses. I wonder if we'll all be getting
spam or something worse from this in the future.
</conspiracy-theory>
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oval
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response 82 of 335:
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Jun 30 15:08 UTC 2003 |
..i was thinking this too....doing exactly what usually causes the spam to
get rid of it??
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gull
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response 83 of 335:
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Jun 30 15:36 UTC 2003 |
If you're worried about giving your email address, there will soon be a
toll-free phone number you can use to register your number.
Me, I just registered on the site. My email address is already
associated with my phone number via WHOIS, anyhow.
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lynne
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response 84 of 335:
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Jun 30 18:30 UTC 2003 |
<imagines potential lawsuits over being unknowingly put on the do not call
list..."dammit, those telemarketers were my entire social life!">
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gull
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response 85 of 335:
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Jun 30 19:27 UTC 2003 |
I suspect the goal is to prevent people from being unknowingly taken
*off*. There's a form for that too, and if they didn't require an email
address for verification, it's not hard to imagine some unscrupulous
telemarketing company writing a 'bot to remove whole swaths of numbers.
Presumably when you request to be removed from the list, they email the
same address you used to register and wait for a confirmation.
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keesan
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response 86 of 335:
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Jun 30 23:48 UTC 2003 |
I have not received a confirmation email - two days since I submitted.
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glenda
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response 87 of 335:
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Jul 1 00:07 UTC 2003 |
Then submit again. It took less than 5 minutes for my confirmation email to
arrive yesterday.
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janc
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response 88 of 335:
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Jul 1 01:49 UTC 2003 |
Katherine Hepburn died. That's a pair of shoes that will never be filled.
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slynne
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response 89 of 335:
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Jul 1 02:15 UTC 2003 |
No kidding
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beeswing
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response 90 of 335:
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Jul 1 04:24 UTC 2003 |
The loons, Norman! The loons!
(sorry).
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tod
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response 91 of 335:
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Jul 1 04:34 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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cross
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response 92 of 335:
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Jul 1 05:41 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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goose
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response 93 of 335:
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Jul 1 14:08 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, that was my experience Dan. However, I've yet to be able to click on
the link to complete the deal. It always tells me that the website is
unavailable and to try again later.
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anderyn
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response 94 of 335:
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Jul 1 14:19 UTC 2003 |
I got the email late Friday night (I registered Friday morning/afternoon, and
clicked on it on Monday), and it was relatively painless.
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tpryan
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response 95 of 335:
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Jul 1 20:01 UTC 2003 |
Loopsided triagle this time, as Buddy Hacket was found dead
on Monday.
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keesan
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response 96 of 335:
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Jul 1 22:28 UTC 2003 |
I was persistent and kept going back to the site when I got error messages
or got there and could not arrow up and down, and finally signed in and got
my three emails a few minutes later. Last time I had not done the second
stage of the sign-in as I did not realize I had to page down to see it.
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slynne
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response 97 of 335:
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Jul 2 13:31 UTC 2003 |
If anyone wants a coupon for 20% off at Borders/Waldenbooks, here is a
URL you can go to
http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=friendsandfamily
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tod
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response 98 of 335:
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Jul 2 16:51 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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gregb
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response 99 of 335:
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Jul 2 17:11 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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