National Do Not Call Registry has opened

Tue Jul 1 09:28:05 UTC 2003

> 
> It was occasionally amusing to keep them on the phone for about half an 
> hour, and then say "of course, you realise this is an international 
> call, there's no way I can buy what you're selling, and in fact this is 
> costing you vast sums of money". Until I realised that they thought 
> "international" meant out-of-state, and that they thought New Zealand 
> was a town in Southern California.
> 
And bulk buying international minutes to non-regulated destinations costs
you less than a consumer pays for interstate call within the US.

So if you time is worth less than $2 an hour, go ahead :-) If the event
you describe happened 10 years ago, you actually did some good.

Pete