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Hanging up on telemarketers | CNET News.com: "Hanging up on telemarketers
Published: October 1, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


If you've noticed that the phone isn't ringing so much around dinner time these days, thank the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
A year ago this Friday, the agency effectively gave millions of Americans the ability to hang up forever on telemarketers with the inauguration of a national Do Not Call list."