Ugh. Great job guys, thanks.

[misterx]

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal court in Oklahoma has blocked the national "do not call" list that would allow consumers to stop most unwanted telephone sales calls, one week before it was due to take effect."

Link to the story on Reuters

Comments

[melanie.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

not surprised, actually. it felt too good to be true.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Take it out on a telemarketer. When they call, screw up their call per hour metric by keeping them on the phone as long as you possibly can, but don't agree to buy anything. If we all did that, they'd go out of business. And remember, phone sex charges by the minute, telemarketers will talk to you for free.

[lilith17.livejournal.com]

Better solution all around....individuals and legitimate businesses should ALWAYS have their info come up on caller id, leaving the *unavailable* title for telemarketers and the like. Then people could choose to screen the phone calls coming in to their homes and ignore those from unavailable sources. Or another identifying title should be issued for the phone lines telemarketers use, so even if they can't be forced to disclose their business name and number, they also couldn't *sneak* into your home by being just another anonymous call.