Morgainelf: Won’t the national list make the state ones redundant and ultimately eliminate the need for them?
Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase recently in the number of telemarketing calls? I’ve been attributing it to last-chance efforts before the national list goes active.
KellyM: Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Slight hijack: Does anyone know if that Telezapper thing really works? The nominal explanation seemed reasonable to me (it supposedly sends a tone that computer dialing systems interpret as a disconnected number, so they update the database showing your number as dead, after which you won’t get any more calls from them), so I bought one and used it. But it was rather annoying, since it made a tone every time you picked up the phone, which confused many ordinary callers.
After trying it for several months and noticing no significant change in telemarketing calls, I disconnected it. I have other friends with it, and they say it’s working for them, but I think that’s confirmation bias at work, not the Telezapper.
Anyone?