Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-07-03 Thread Richard D G Cox
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:28:05 +0200 Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | bulk buying international minutes to non-regulated destinations costs | you less than a consumer pays for interstate call within the US. On which basis inbound telemarketing calls from ostensibly non-regulated sources

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Black
Has anyone noticed an obvious hole in the new DNC Registry? Anyone can start sending delete requests to remove another person's phone number from the list. Since they don't save anything about the request other than the phone number and date (see Privacy Policy; they don't collect e-mail or IP

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-07-02 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Oh, joy -- more spam instead of telemarketers. Joy, actually, since e-mail is not prone to giving unsolicited wake-up calls to those of us who live graveyard shift. --vadim

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, NANOGers. ] Oh, joy -- more spam instead of telemarketers. UGH. This of course requires more hosts sending spam, which in turn raises the value of a compromised host or router. Thanks, Rob. -- Rob Thomas http://www.cymru.com ASSERT(coffee != empty);

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-30 Thread Roland Perry
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tomas Daniska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes quote Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls? A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing calls.

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-30 Thread Michael . Dillon
Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls? A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing calls. Some businesses are exempt from the national registry and still can call you

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Tomas Daniska
will not this just be a safe source of working numbers for all those covered by exceptions? quote Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls? A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Mike Damm
*sigh* So why did Richard Callahan even bother soliciting advice the first place? They are demonstrating they have no concern in operating a decent mail system, even after many kind folks here provided them all the info they needed. I've had two confirmations dropped so far today. Bad in-addr

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Sameer R. Manek
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Damm Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:06 AM To save you all some keystrokes... Donotcall.gov has no MX records. No reverse DNS on any of their outbound mail boxes. And they obviously are not

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Sameer! On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Sameer R. Manek wrote: Dealing with the bounces would be a nightmare, they've already got their handsful with the webservers and the outbound mail boxes. If you can not run a mail server/mail list properly, then you should not do so. Sounds like donotcall.gov

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Mike Damm wrote: To save you all some keystrokes... Donotcall.gov has no MX records. No reverse DNS on any of their outbound mail boxes. And they obviously are not processing bounces/complaints/etc. since nothing on that netblock has port 25 open. And you can bet that

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Nick Nelson
On 27 Jun 2003 at 14:52, Charles Sprickman wrote: And you can bet that this project cost at least six figures, maybe seven. As a taxpayer, I was quite disappointed to see IIS and Microsoft SMTPSVC gluing this pile together. When I went in and registered last night, I was surprised to see

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Michael Hallgren
Businesses that ask for email addresses know that a significant percentage of people can't type their own email address correctly. Each of those results in a bounce, or an undeliverable message sitting in an mqueue somewhere. It would not surprise me if they also reduced their

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Roland Perry
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I was thinking more along the line of a bot submitting every possible 10 digit phone number. Do the nation a favor. Which is, of course, what might happen with email addresses, if someone made the very bad decision to

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread LeBlanc, Robert
This came in from CBS Market Watch: YAHOO BLOCKS FTC DO-NOT-CALL MAIL SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Isn't it ironic. In the war against unsolicited e-mail, automated Spam blockers are actually getting in the way as they block legitimate mail from the government. The federal government on Friday

RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV
Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Thus spake LeBlanc, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's very difficult to make the technology work... Spam blockers are automated and the software rules are arbitrary, he said. It's a shame the press are putting the blame