[LINK] Do not call list?

[David Boxall]

On 5/05/2012 1:58 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> ...
> On Sat, 5 May 2012 12:27:29 +1000 Kim Holburn<kim at holburn.net>  wrote:
>>
>> I have suddenly started getting telephone calls from charities.  I tell them I am on the "do not call list" and they say they are not covered. It appears they aren't:
>
> My response to charities cold calling me is to say that I donate to the
> charities that I want to, but I will never donate to a charity that
> wastes its money cold calling people.  Generally charities will take note
> if you ask them not to call, it is the businesses (covered by DNC) that
> will ignore such requests.
> ...
In addition to the DNC list, I have an answering machine. The machine 
used to have a message, telling telemarketers to basically FOAD. That 
attracted the occasional narky message from telemarketers, so I changed it.

The new outgoing message just identifies the line as mine and invites 
the caller to wait for the tone before leaving a message. In two years, 
no telemarketer has.

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