Federal telemarketing list sees strong response on opening day

Inter­net: In its first day of oper­a­tions, the US Government’s Do-Not-Call list logs 735,000 phone num­bers. And that’s just from the Inter­net. That’s more out­rage than the typ­i­cal Gulf War 2 protest.

“When Amer­i­cans are sit­ting down to din­ner or a par­ent is read­ing to his or her child, the last thing that they need is a call from a stranger with a sales pitch,” Bush 43 said. Hope the GOP and Dems remem­ber those words dur­ing fund-raising season!

So there seems to be ample sup­port for some easy, viable solu­tion to junk calls, even if www.donotcall.gov won’t start work­ing until Octo­ber, and even then there are enough loophopes that the Feds will only promise an 80% suc­cess rate.

Any­one for stop­ping spam?

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