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Elspeth	Posted: 04-Jan-2005, 12:53 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Wales Posts: 2,216 Joined: 24-Jun-2003 Zodiac: Reed	I got this as an e-mail forward. I called and it seemed to be legit. For anyone that has a cell phone and does not want unwanted calls. A directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published for all consumers to have access to. This will open the doors for solicitors to call you on your cell phones, using up precious minutes that we pay lots of money for. The Federal Trade Commission has set up a "do not call" list. It is called a cell phone registry. To be included on the "do not call" list, you must call from your cell phone to register that number to the "do not call list" The number is 1-888-382-1222 OR you can go to their web site at http://www.donotcall.gov/ and add your number to the do not call list. Please give this to friends who have cell phones -------------------- Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles, how can it be called progress? -LLP

dragonboy3611	Posted: 04-Jan-2005, 06:00 PM
A Friend to who needs one. Group: Ireland Posts: 743 Joined: 01-Nov-2004 Zodiac: Birch Realm: USA, New York	Hmm, it really adds you to a "do not call" list? They don't add you to a "call alot because they really don't want to be disturbed, but we'll do it anyway" list? -------------------- "Men at some time are masters of their fate" Jul Caesar, Act i, Sc.2 "When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions" Hamlet, Act iv, Sc.5 "All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity" Hamlet, Act i, Sc.2

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Posted: 05-Jan-2005, 06:28 AM

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QUOTE (dragonboy3611 @ 04-Jan-2005, 06:00 PM)

Hmm, it really adds you to a "do not call" list? They don't add you to a "call alot because they really don't want to be disturbed, but we'll do it anyway" list?

I think dragonboy may have it right!!

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Elspeth	Posted: 05-Jan-2005, 06:36 AM
Celtic Guardian Group: Wales Posts: 2,216 Joined: 24-Jun-2003 Zodiac: Reed	I've wondered

Monarchs Own	Posted: 05-Jan-2005, 07:43 AM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 798 Joined: 19-Sep-2004 Zodiac: Elder Realm: Phenix City, AL - back in the good ole USA	Well I did put my homephone number on the list and must say it worked well. For sure I will put my cell number on it - before they call me with all these annoying things. Just in case anyways. But maybe if I get one of these calls while at dinner - I just let them talk while I put the phone down and continue eating. --------------------

Mailagnas maqqas Dunaidonas

Posted: 05-Jan-2005, 08:21 PM

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This one is an internet urban legend.

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although the gist of the message quoted at the head of this page is correct in alerting consumers to a proposed directory of cell phone numbers, it is misleading in stating that such a directory will "soon be published" (the word "published" implies making a printed directory available, which the wireless consortium maintains they will not do) and in directing readers to sign up with the The National Do Not Call Registry. The latter step will not keep wireless customer listings out of the proposed Wireless 411 database ? it will only add their phone numbers to a list of numbers off-limits to most telemarketers, a step which is premature (because the Wireless 411 directory has not yet been implemented) and largely unnecessary (because the Wireless 411 directory information is not supposed to be supplied to telemarketers, and because FCC regulations already in place block the bulk of telemarketing calls to cell phones).

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Adding one's cell phone number to the National Do Not Call Registry (even if currently unnecessary) won't likely have any adverse effect, but customers should be aware of exactly what that action will or will not accomplish.

See Snopes.

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Mailagnas
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dragonboy3611	Posted: 08-Jan-2005, 09:00 PM
A Friend to who needs one. Group: Ireland Posts: 743 Joined: 01-Nov-2004 Zodiac: Birch Realm: USA, New York	From the snopes site Mailagnas maqqas Dunaidonas gave! Celling Your Soul Claim: A directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published. Status: Multiple: A consortium of wireless providers is planning to create a 411 (directory assistance) service for cell phone numbers: True. You must register your cell phone with the national "Do Not Call" directory before 1 January 2005 to prevent your number from being provided to telemarketers: False.

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