, so
apologies if this has already been addressed.
Saul
From: Harvey Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call
Date: Tue, 2 Oct
Register your phone
https://www.donotcall.gov/
and then you will have some recourse. Most of the calls should stop
after the registration kicks in. Good Luck.
Richard P.
Saul Goldberg wrote:
I have gotten several spam calls on my cell phone. I thought this was
outright illegal. But of
thread, so apologies if this has already been addressed.
Saul
From: Harvey Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:43
You may be able to get at those messages by calling yourself on a land
line and accessing them that way. I can do that on my Verizon
wireless phone.
On 10/3/07, Sue Cubic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:19 AM 10/03/2007 -0400, Harvey Simon wrote
Just one question, Sue. Do you ever try to reach
At 06:37 PM 10/02/2007 -0400, Robert wrote
These were a snug pocket for watches on the right side of pants just
underneath the belt -- all men's pants had them until about 1955. My
father reluctantly had to switch to a wristwatch when the watch pocket
was removed from pants.
Is THAT what
Robert said:
Today, there ought to be a separate pocket in everyone's clothes
each for the cell phone, the GPS device, the iPod, the subcompact
digital camera, the pocket PC (if it still exists), the digital
passport, and a portable radio/tv. I think I have missed an
important device
These were a snug pocket for watches on the right side of pants
just underneath the belt -- all men's pants had them until about
1955. My father reluctantly had to switch to a wristwatch when the
watch pocket was removed from pants.
Is THAT what that little pocket is for??? I always wondered!
I followed the cell phone/spam disucssions with interest since about 3
years ago, I began receiving spam call/robot calls from the public
school system telling me that my child could not attend without the
propoer vacinations 3 problems: I have no school age children, I
don't live in that
Just one question, Sue. Do you ever try to reach anyone on their cell
phone?
Btw, no charge for checking voice mail.
-- Forwarded Message
From: Sue Cubic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:44:54 -0400
Subject: Re: OT:Cell phone do not call
At 04:06 PM 10/2/2007, you wrote:
I think
At 10:19 AM 10/03/2007 -0400, Harvey Simon wrote
Just one question, Sue. Do you ever try to reach anyone on their cell
phone?
Btw, no charge for checking voice mail.
Only if I know they're a regular user. Or if I've been given that number
to reach them.
I'm sitting here now reading my
Sorry about the wrong info on voice mail charges. I think you're right --
it depends.
On the other point, I just think that a good test of any behavior is whether
you'd be content if everyone did the same. If everyone used their cell
phones exclusively for outgoing calls, no one would ever be
Cell phone numbers are recycled, more often for PAYGO. So if the person
who gave up the number when they didn't bother to refill their card
doesn't tell friends, etc., that the number isn't theirs any more, you
will likely get their number with your new phone and their unwanted
phone calls. If
Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow
REMINDERall cell phone numbers are being released
to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start
to receive sale calls.
.YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS
To prevent this, call the following number from your
cell phone:
From the FTC website http://www.ftc.gov/donotcall
Did you get an email claiming that your cell phone is about to be
assaulted by telemarketing calls because of a new cell phone number
database? Those claims are not true. In fact, federal law prohibits
telemarketers from using automated
Please check out your info before sending it to a list.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/02/dnccellphones.shtm
Stewart
At 02:57 PM 10/2/2007, you wrote:
Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow
REMINDERall cell phone numbers are being released
to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will
From the governments web page:
Did you get an email claiming that your cell phone is about to be
assaulted by telemarketing calls because of a new cell phone number
database? Those claims are not true. In fact, federal law prohibits
telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell
I was listening to NPR last night and they were discussing polls and
how accurate they are as they do not call those who have only a cell phone.
They mentioned that many pollsters do not call Cell phones as they
ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE AUTOMATIC Dialers on cell phones and it is not
worth their
I think it is necessary to register cellphones (unless you enjoy wasting
your time and minutes listening through all the voicemail spam before
you are allowed to delete it). Ours were inundated until we put them on
the list. We also got the occasional text message spam until we had it
as reflecting
it.
Randall
- Original Message -
From: Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call
I was listening to NPR last night and they were discussing polls and how
At 04:06 PM 10/2/2007, you wrote:
I think it is necessary to register cellphones (unless you enjoy wasting
your time and minutes listening through all the voicemail spam before you
are allowed to delete it). Ours were inundated until we put them on the
list. We also got the occasional text
Hear, Hear!
I'm not a fan of cell phones either. They are frustrating to use, voice
quality is poor at best and non-existent at worst, the battery is dead
in a day (from my house) or in an hour (when I'm on vacation in the
mountains), the contracts offered boil my blood, the phones break
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