| Comment Number: | OL-101836 |
| Received: | 11/27/2004 7:42:41 PM |
| Organization: | Monitor Lizards Software |
| Commenter: | Todd Ellner |
| State: | WA |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
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Comments:
I am frankly appalled and shocked at this proposal. I specifically joined the do-not-call registry in order to avoid having my time wasted and privacy invaded by telemarketers and phone solicitors. Your proposed "ammendment" is the destruction of the registry. No matter whether you call if a "safe-harbor" or "abandonment" it comes to the same thing. You are allowing the telemarketers and spammers access to people like me want nothing to do with them. Further, you are making people like us particularly vulnerable. By making our numbers available to the shills and salesmen you have told them that we specifically represent a market which is "under served" by their unwanted attentions. Recorded phone commercial solicitations were abolished years ago for good reason. Protecting the most annoying and intrusive form of advertisement makes no sense if you have any pretense of protecting the public