Phone customers rally to protect �do not call� rule: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Phone customers rally to protect �do not call� rule: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Phone customers rally to protect �do not call� rule

By Tal Abbady
Staff Writer
Posted December 16 2004

Consumers who thought they had thwarted telemarketers' intrusions with the federal Do Not Call Registry now are working to block a new portal back into the home: answering-machine spam.

The Federal Trade Commission is considering an exception to the national Do Not Call Registry that would allow companies to leave recorded messages on answering machines or voice mail of existing customers."