As of Jan. 1 2005, cell phone numbers are being made public. I only found out late yesterday, and the cutoff date for applying for the “Do Not Call” list is: you guessed it: Dec 15, 2004. Don’t know how this applies for Canada or anyone else, but US cell phones, at least, can now be inundated by telemarketers using up your extra minutes and YOU pay!!! Get it done at:
Thanks Nano. I didn’t realize there was a deadline. I’d done my number, but hadn’t registered the 3 girls on my Family Talk plan. Now I’m waiting for the confirmation emails.
Well, I went and registered my cell phone, then started wondering why I had not heard anything about it. I did a Google search and both the Snopes and the Urban Ledgends websites say that this is not true.
I have no clue what is correct or not, but to be safe folks may want to register.
I’m just looking through the chart for Dante’s Inferno, for telemarke…err… I mean… thanks for the tip. The idea of getting solicitation calls in this way seems ridiculous.
Some folks I’ve communicated with have said that some news reports have indicated that the Jan. 1 thing is illegal, but others say otherwise, but it shouldn’t be a nuisance. I don’t care to test the waters in any case. Those who use their cell phones for gigs, etc., don’t need the aggravation. And thanks, Tom, for thanking me for bringing it to my attention.
I was sent (forwarded) that warning about a week ago. From the same person that sent me the warning that they are about to start taxing emai. From the same person that sent me the warning that a new virus is out that will not only destroy my computer, but the refrigerator, toaster, oven, washer and dryer, and the car and dog too.
I’ve sent him the address to snopes.com several times. Far as I know he never checks it out first. Or maybe he does, and the really wild stories get filtered out befor he sends them to me.
Btw, I was sent an urgent email this morning of a new drug on the streets that turns little bitty kids into flesh eating zombies that molest themselves, cause them to get piercings and tatoos, and thier heads explode everytime they use a cell phone. Thier heads grow back so they can explode again, btw.
Dear Mr. Puking Rabbit. From the looks of your Avatar, you may have already been using this drug, as your head is constantly exploding. However, there is one PROVEN, NON HABIT FORMING, ALL NATURAL SUPPLEMENT that you can get, but only on the internet. I think it from some place in Nigeria.
Best of luck with curing your addiction/condition.
Um, yeah, those are the ones. For an addtional $19.99 they will also send you a 30 day supply of the stuff to break your addiction- WAIT, for the next 17.79 people who respond by e-mail in the next decade, they will double their offer to 60 days, for the same incedible low price- not counting shipping and handling, of course- they gotta make a buck somehow.
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