The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office is dealing with a flood of calls and its website is registering as many as 80 hits per second. Apparently, the AG's office maintains the state's Do-Not-Call list, designed to keep away unwanted telephone solicitors. However, the list is valid for five years only, so those Pennsylvanians who first registered in 2002, when the program was initiated, must now register again
As the National Post comments, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission) suspended in 2004 its (anti)telemarketing rules following a request of the Canadian Marketing Association. Canadians who do not wish to be solicited must contact each telemarketer separately and ask them not to call.
If Macleans is looking for a worthy target, a group that constitutes a real menace to society, perhaps they can dedicate their next issue to telemarketers.
