A co-worker sent me this today (he wrote it, its not spam)...I thought I would pass it along.

In a few weeks, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls on your cell phones.

Call this number from your cell phone (1-888-382-1222).
It is the national Do Not Call list. It blocks your number for 5 years. You must call from your cell phone. It took me just one minute to do. You may want to distribute this information to your friends and family.

www.donotcall.gov

 

thanks for the heads up! I'm calling right now.....My home number is already registered with the Nat. DNCL, and I havent gotten one telemarketer call since it went into effect about 3 months ago. w00t!

-Ted

edit: called took about 1 min. good find thanks! it should go into effect within 30 days.

 

Does the Police Station that calls for donations count as violating National DNCL? I'm tired of them asking for more donations. As well as recruiters for the armed forces? I'm also tired of picking up those calls.

-GDO

 

No - most non profits are exempted from the DNCL

 

This is an URBAN LEGEND Suckers

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

 

This is not an urban legend!!!

I know because my neighbor's cousins friends uncles gay brothers therapists midget clown concubine wrote it!!!! one!!

 

ROFL

 

that reminds me left handed lesbian midget albino's eskimos that drop children into manholes when the moon's full.

i wonder if anyone else is aware of the Dead Milkmen.

 

ahh I need to add my cell phone to that list.

 

I read the urban legend page. I would summarise it as this: It's probably going to not make a difference,
but it's not going to hurt anything if you do it.

Here is a quote from the page:

The latter step will not keep wireless customer listings out of the proposed Wireless 411 database — it will only add their phone numbers to a list of numbers off-limits to most telemarketers, a step which is premature (because the Wireless 411 directory has not yet been implemented) and largely unnecessary (because the Wireless 411 directory information is not supposed to be supplied to telemarketers, and because FCC regulations already in place block the bulk of telemarketing calls to cell phones).