| Comment Number: | OL-103218 |
| Received: | 11/28/2004 9:09:29 AM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Roger Meier |
| State: | TN |
| 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:
Imagine coming home every night and finding four or five messages on your answering machine, some 2-3 minutes long, that are nothing more than advertisements. To have to sort through those messages to hear the valid messages will be even worse than having to sift through your e-mail inbox every morning to sort the spam from the legitimate e-mails. The proposed amendment opens the door to this kind of abuse and changes in technology, particularly VOIP, will make it a reality within months of passage. With VOIP, it will cost as little to spam our answering machines as it does to spam our e-mailboxes. Congress has already outlawed fax spam and states are seeking to outlaw e-mail spam. Why on earth would the FCC open a loophole allowing yet another source of spam to pollute our lives? This amendment is a horrible idea.