Get rid of annonying telemarketers for good! Go and register or call their toll free number.

http://www.donotcall.gov/

I went through the registration process, but never got the two e-mails necessary to complete registration. Has anybody else had that problem? I've used various e-mail addresses, but haven't received the 2 e-mails...

There's been a report that spam-catchers sometimes filter out the 2 e-mails, but that doesn't seem to be the problem for me...

It does take a few hours for the first email to come.
The spam problem I heard about was with yahoo mail.

Yeah. I notified Yahoo of the problem last night by clicking on "This is not spam." Then I created a filter for it so the others could come without a problem. If the emails didn't arrive after one hour, I went back to the site and registered again. Then it came in a few minutes.

I registered last night around 7:00 P.M.

Still waiting for my email.

Todays paper said the website was averaging 1,000 hits per second yesterday.

Just saw on the news this morning that some national Telemarketing organization is going to fight this whole deal as being anit-competitive.

They are claiming it will put them out of business........So? What don't they understand?

I got my email about 24 hours after I started the registration process. If you haven't gotten yours yet, don't worry, you eventually will.

I registered around noon today EST and received my three e-mails (one for each telephone number submitted) around 20 minutes later. Hit the link on each and confirmed my additions to the list. No problem at all.

Since then, I've received two telemarketing calls (credit cards and mortgages) and one political survey on Freddie Mac.

I can't wait for this to kick in but I do wonder if it will get held up in court forever.

What a great way to match up email addresses with phone numbers. Now John Ashcroft's Gestapo has your email address too!!

Hey, lookit, just cuz I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

You should have just used your spam catching email address. Ha ha. Who'd give their real email to the federal government?

-Superman-

Superman to the rescue. Just wait. With the budget deficit growing every day someone will come up with the bright idea of using these email address and phone numbers to make some fast money. The government will sell the numbers, along with detailed data concerning where you surf on the Net, to "research" firms compiling data on consumer activities so as to enhance the information received from the census forms. This total package will them be released only to marketing firms that can show the ability to best use it by starting this out with a nice fat donation to the Senators who will gut the original bill.

Sounds far fetched but it really isn't. Several years ago here in California a grocery store noticed someone in their lot taking license plate numbers down. Investigation showed that the number takers were working for another major chain. This second chain then bought the address of the owners of the licence plates from DMV, a state organization that requires certain information from all drivers to be truthful and claims that this information is carefully controlled. In another case PacBell was caught selling phone numbers, including unlisted ones, to some outfit.

All the large companies that we deal with for financial services tell us that they hold our personal information closely and will not release it except to units within their overall company. Meaning lots of junk mail and bothersome phone calls for insurance, morgages, and whatever else they have going at the moment.