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Default Do not call

On 10/13/2012 2:39 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 10/13/2012 1:56 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "notbob" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 2012-10-12, James Silverton > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> them. The latest is from Disney World, which is hardly a charity or a
>>>>> political party.
>>>>
>>>> Live call or recording?
>>>>
>>>> I get a lotta recordings, which I promptly hang up on. I heard the
>>>> govt was gonna outlaw all recording calls, but haven't seen it. I
>>>> don't think they do much against blind live calls, either. That govt
>>>> do-not-call thing was probably more to make the govt look good than to
>>>> actually do anything to stop the calls. I notice the govt passes a
>>>> lot of laws making things illegal, but provides no penalty for
>>>> disobeying said laws. IOW, toothless laws, which are useless.
>>>>
>>>> nb
>>>
>>> I just read that something like two weeks ago they managed to stop
>>> "Rachel"
>>> the robocaller who cheerily calls you about credit cards. Most of my
>>> unwanted calls are now the robo ones.
>>>
>>>

>> Rachel isn't stopped yet. I've had robocalls from her many times in the
>> last week.

>
> Hmmm... Let me see if I can find the link. Well of course now I can not.
> I did find some others that say the FTC has shut her down many times but she
> still keeps going.
>
>

She's not a "she". She's a recording. "She" sometimes goes by other
names. And I have several phone numbers "she" calls from, sometimes a
couple of times a day. Trust me, Julie, I know about the DNC stuff.