Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: levitt@zorro9.fidonet.org (Ken Levitt) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Fighting Back Against Junk Calls Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 89 15:40:21 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 363, message 6 of 7 In an article Patrick Townson writes about demanding payment for junk calls. In Massachusetts there is a state law which says that New England Telephone must compile a list of people/phone numbers who do not want machines to call them with recorded messages, and that telemarketers with such machines must get this list from NET and not call anyone on the list. When this started, I had my name/number placed on the list, but it does no good. I still get these type of calls. Usually the calls only ask you to speak your name and phone number for them to tape record and do not identify the company that they are comming from. One time I was able to identify the company and tried to file a complaint. No one at NET or any state office I could find would admit to having jurisdiction over such complaints. I have my own method for dealing with companies like this but I can't write about it in a public forum. -- Ken Levitt - via FidoNet node 1:16/390 UUCP: ...harvard!talcott!zorro9!levitt INTERNET: levitt%zorro9.uucp@talcott.harvard.edu