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goose
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response 35 of 335:
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Jun 25 15:23 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for all the info and well wishes, I'll pass those along.
RE#31 -- I don't know about lights or reflectors, but given he's a fairly
hardcore biker, and his brother is a totally hardcore biker (coast to coast
a couple years ago) I'm fairly certain teh bike was properly equipped.
RE#34 -- No, he kept all his teeth
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naftee
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response 36 of 335:
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Jun 26 00:50 UTC 2003 |
That's good. What a bummer.
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oggi
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response 37 of 335:
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Jun 26 06:51 UTC 2003 |
i think i lost my pimp juice.
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mary
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response 38 of 335:
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Jun 27 14:19 UTC 2003 |
The web site that allows you to register your phone number
on the national "Do Not Call" list is up. It's at:
http://www.donotcall.gov
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gelinas
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response 39 of 335:
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Jun 27 14:27 UTC 2003 |
(And probably overwhelmed. :)
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gregb
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response 40 of 335:
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Jun 27 14:53 UTC 2003 |
It is. Just tried to get there a couple times. Both times--after
waiting about a minute--I got the "no DNS..." error page.
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jep
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response 41 of 335:
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Jun 27 15:16 UTC 2003 |
I got past the "no DNS" but was then told I'd be receiving two e-
mails "shortly". It's been about 2 hours and no e-mails have arrived.
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keesan
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response 42 of 335:
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Jun 27 17:52 UTC 2003 |
I may have finally found a way to stop the twice monthly Comcast junk mails.
I hunted all over their website for an email address and found one in Investor
Relations. On the theory that they would be more considerate of their
investors than of their victims, I emailed and got back, so far, two very
polite emails stating that they would forward all my addresses to marketing.
I phoned SBC for the tenth time. They have, indeeded, blocked 'enhanced
repeat dialing' but the block is not working. The repair service will check
out why I am still getting the recorded commercial asking for 75 cents
instead of a busy signal. Last time they check this out by phoning Jim from
my number, but they goofed and checked out the recording that occurs after
8 rings. Someone clever has already fixed the broken programming on this one.
I now get a friendly phone call from SBC about once a week asking if I am
happy with my service.
Charter One bank has been pestering us with junk mail. When Jim asked to be
taken off the list he was sent a form letter that required him to fill in his
name, address, phone number, email address and social security number before
they could remove his address from their mailing list or promise not to share
it with third parties. I phoned when I got more junk mail yesterday and the
guy there insisted there was no way to get off their junk mail list without
providing a social security number so I asked him to mail me the form, which
I would send along to the Michigan Attorney General's Office to report this
as a scam, and maybe they could get us off the junk mail list. The clerk I
was talking to said it was not a scam, but they did need my SSN. I asked for
marketing and got forwarded to a recorded FAQ that said to hang up when I was
done listening. I called again, and went through the same procedure including
the FAQ. In order to get the form mailed to me, this time I had to provide
a name (they had mailed to 'neighbor'). He insisted I make one up, so now
I will probably start getting heaps of junk mail addressed to A B. We are
still trying to kill Herman Loth. Last company had preapproved a mortgage
to this imaginary character (which someone somewhere created by hybridizing
two characters Jim made up as a joke). They insisted they got all their lists
of names from the public records and Herman must be listed at our county
building, rather than Jim, as the owner of his house. Nobody sends Herman
tax notices.
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goose
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response 43 of 335:
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Jun 27 18:48 UTC 2003 |
RE#38 -- It was Slashdotted this morning.
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jep
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response 44 of 335:
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Jun 27 19:43 UTC 2003 |
After 7 hours, I still have not received the e-mails from the
nospam.gov site.
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tod
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response 45 of 335:
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Jun 27 20:53 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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gull
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response 46 of 335:
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Jun 27 21:06 UTC 2003 |
I haven't had much luck with the website. It's too overloaded. Doesn't
matter, though, since it doesn't take effect until October anyway.
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keesan
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response 47 of 335:
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Jun 27 21:52 UTC 2003 |
I would like to see a national 'do not write' list to protect addresses.
The post office is required to sell them.
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keesan
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response 48 of 335:
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Jun 27 22:16 UTC 2003 |
I checked out the Michigan Consumer Protection Division. They have decided
not to bother with a Michigan 'do not call' list, which would have cost $5
per phone number to get onto, but to enforce the free national one. If you
get onto the list by Aug 31 the telemarketers have until Oct. 31 to stop
calling you. If you miss that deadline, it may take 3 months for them to
stop. (This implies that the telemarketers have to buy a new list every three
months). You can still get annoying phone calls from politicians, deputy
sheriffs, anyone else asking for donations or contributions, anyone calling
to arrange a face to face meeting but not specifically asking you in the phone
call to buy anything, etc. I am going to be rude to a lot of deputy sheriffs.
One piece of good news is they have banned recorded announcements. Problem
is that the recorded announcements don't usually include phone numbers so it
is hard to track down where they came from when they clog your answering
machine. Jim says he gets about one a day of recorded announcement or hangup.
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glenda
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response 49 of 335:
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Jun 27 22:27 UTC 2003 |
Jim is lucky. We get much more than that. At least 5 a day and some days
up to 25. Most of them don't leave a message, but they show up on our
answering machine anyway, usually with caller unknown on the ider. Recently
a lot of "Atlanta call", "Flordia call", and the ocassional "Alaska call".
I'd like to know what those are, but they just hang up when the answering
machine picks up. We screen ALL calls so I don't know what they do if the
phone is actually answered.
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tod
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response 50 of 335:
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Jun 27 22:40 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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mdw
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response 51 of 335:
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Jun 27 22:52 UTC 2003 |
They allow "anyone calling to arrange a face to face meeting but not
specifically asking you in the phone call to buy anything"? Sheesh. I
can see a lot of telemarketers coming up with new and even more annoying
spiels to drive through that loophole.
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johnnie
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response 52 of 335:
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Jun 27 22:58 UTC 2003 |
I had no problems whatsoever with the "no call" website, but then I was
on it at 6am...
re #48 - Virtually every call you'll ever get from someone claiming to
be raising money for the police (or for firemen) will be a scam. Be as
rude as you like.
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dcat
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response 53 of 335:
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Jun 27 23:15 UTC 2003 |
resp:48,49 -- I think my parents are already on DNC lists. Aside from the
occasional misguided siding or roofing salesman --- easily turned aside, as
we don't own the house --- we get virtually no calls. At all.
Having only one phone line, and having it frequently occupied by the modem
for long stretches of time, probably doesn't hurt, either.
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tod
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response 54 of 335:
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Jun 27 23:23 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 55 of 335:
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Jun 28 05:19 UTC 2003 |
I do the same. I now get very few marketing calls - there hasn't been one
for several weeks, except one political fund raiser, which would be sanctioned
anyway (I was still rude).
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keesan
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response 56 of 335:
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Jun 28 05:30 UTC 2003 |
Why can't the political parties also not call people on the don't call list?
I think the Michigan rules take effect June 30, after which I can try to
report recorded phone messages.
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keesan
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response 57 of 335:
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Jun 28 05:58 UTC 2003 |
I did some reading at the www.donotcall.gov site. No crowds at 1 am.
The FCC is working on eliminating the loopholes which allow banks, insurance
companies, airlines and long distance phone companies to annoy us. You can
still be called by people soliciting donations but they have to put you on
their own list and not call again.
I entered three numbers, selected SUBMIT, and got:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
_________________________________________________________________
While trying to retrieve the URL:
[1]http://www.donotcall.gov/register/Reg.aspx
The following error was encountered:
* Read Error
The system returned:
(54) Connection reset by peer
An error condition occurred while reading data from the network.
Please retry your request.
Your cache administrator is [2]staff@cyberspace.org.
_________________________________________________________________
Generated Sat, 28 Jun 2003 06:05:19 GMT by gryps.cyberspace.org
(squid/2.5.PRE5)
References
1. http://www.donotcall.gov/register/Reg.aspx
2. mailto:staff@cyberspace.org
Is this one of those sites that is crippled by javascript? What is an
aspx?
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marinego
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response 58 of 335:
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Jun 28 06:04 UTC 2003 |
What I can do here??.
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mary
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response 59 of 335:
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Jun 28 12:17 UTC 2003 |
The process worked pretty well just now. The web site was
available, I entered our three phone numbers, and mail
came back asking for my confirmation. I confirmed and they
reconfirmed our numbers are now on the list.
Now, on to junk mail. ;-)
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