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From: forrette@cory.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette)
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Subject: Re: Mercury Marketing Again
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Date: 15 Oct 90 19:16:20 GMT
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>>I have also gotten some annoying sales calls from the Mercury, though
>>not lately.  At least they seem to obey the law against having a
>>computer initiate the call, without a human being talking to you
>>first. ...

>I understood this to be California law, also, but I found no reference
>to it at the UCLA Law Library.  Any Californian have the section
>number?

Many of the "laws" regulating telephone usage are administrative laws,
not statutory laws.  They are in the form of tariffs on file with the
PUC.  Although not "laws" as most people think of them, since they
weren't passed by the legislature, they have the same force and effect
(ever heard of the Internal Revenue Code?)