Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: briang@bari.sun.com (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Solicitations (Ag Message-ID: <1980@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Dec 89 18:45:16 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Brian Gordon Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 563, message 2 of 7 In article <1902@accuvax.nwu.edu> 10e@hpcvia.cv.hp.com (Steven_Tenney) writes: >X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 557, message 5 of 11 >Oregon is soon to pass a law where a subscriber can have a symbol >placed by their name in phone books indicating that they do not want >any telemarketers/solicitors calling. If telemarketers do call the >particular residence anyway (whether it's a mistake or not) the could >be fined heavily (up to $25,000). Needless to say this will kill the >computerized random calling technique in Oregon. ... but only FROM telephones in Oregon. Callers in other states won't be affected by an Oregon law, and probably won't even have access to the "symbols" even if they wanted to comply. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian G. Gordon briang@Corp.Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) | | ...!sun!briangordon (if you route it yourself) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+