if you haven’t done so already then go right now to www.donotcall.gov and sign your self up. note: it may take a while for them to send you the confirmation email.
i think this is a good thing for all of us who hate those damn telemarketers, however if you read the documentation you’ll note that there a few exemptions.
also it seems like this would really benefit the telemarketing companies because now they have a list of people not to waste their time or money on. this should save them a great deal of money if they followed this logic, because then they could focus more on the people who might actually buy their crap.
however based on that logic then spammers wouldn’t try and alter their messages so as to not get caught in email message filters marking them as spam, because then they would only be targetting those people that may be interested.
in the end i think we will have to wait and see how effective the national do not call list really is to stopping those annoying telemarketer calls. in any case i think it is a step in the right direction, and i wouldn’t mind seeing something like this for spam.