Comment Number: OL-109712
Received: 12/11/2004 2:31:13 AM
Organization:
Commenter: Greg Lutz
State: CA
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:

To relax the application of the Do Not Call Rule to allow greater scope to telemarketers with automatic calling machinery is absurd. Interpretation of the phrase "pre-existing business relationship" is already so loose as to provide a loophole/safe harbor larger than the telemarketers had any right to expect. Automatic-call telemarketing campaigns are an abomination, and restrictions on them need to be tightened, not loosened.