[LINK] Fwd: MR30/2010: Re-register now to avoid telemarketing calls [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Stilgherrian]

On 11/03/2010, at 5:10 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Yes well they could always unregister couldn't they?  It's not  
> supposed to be any harder.  None of this seems like a real reason to  
> force everyone to reregister.  A huge amount of work for everyone on  
> the list and the list maintainers, hundreds of thousands of  
> registrations as opposed to say: one or two of deregistrations?

Or, dare I say it, we could just let people use caller ID and screen their calls and -- gasp! -- accept that maybe it's OK for someone to initiate a conversation and the other party to politely say "Sorry, I'm not interested".

That way we'd save the entire cost of this rigmarole.

Are people really so precious that they cope with occasionally glancing at their phone and not answering if they don't recognise the number? Or so desperate for contact that they can't just turn the phone off if they're doing something else?

Very, very few of us are really on call requiring instant response to anyone who might thing they want us Right Now.

[ducks]

Stil


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