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Originally Posted by RWood
We have a home phone with the number known by very few -- family, close friends, and the ever popular automated political caller. The business phone is my cell phone. I started using the cell phone for business when I checked the rate structure of the local telephone company. Cell was less expensive plus I can get all of my voice mail in one place.
One of my clients has a workday (due to time zones) that ends about 5 hours after mine. Good thing I work late at night by choice (I have always been a night owl. My cousin claims it is a family trait.)
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In Canada, they have recently launched a do-no-call-list that is government run. Just sign up to the site and register all you phone numbers. T-marketers have to check this list before they make their calls. It is slowly working, I am getting very few calls.
Also, there were exemptions to the list, ie. political parties, charitable organizations, companies whom you have dealt with in the past six months, etc...To get off their list you have to write a personal email.
A smart Prof from the Univeristy of Ottawa has set up a website, where you register, check off some, or all, of the exempt names on the do not call list (that was all 70 boxes for me) and their sytem sends a personal email from me to these exempt organizations. Seems to be working greate.
Also registered with some other advertising organization to get me off their mailing list for junk mail. Noticible decline in junkmail too.
