Comment Number: OL-106813
Received: 12/6/2004 4:48:59 PM
Organization: n/a
Commenter: Cindy Schnackel
State: OK
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 don't think allowing phone-spammers a way to do this legally by prerecording the messages is anything but another form of the same harrassment and waste of answering machine space; it also ties up the lines, including if there'd be an emergency at that time. This is the same as unwanted faxes eating up people's paper and toner...don't allow it. The only unwanted calls that still get thru our privacy manager phone service are usually prerecorded ones, and they make a mess of things if you need to use the phone just then or if the machine is full. Then you can't get legitimate messages.