{"id":1289,"date":"2003-06-27T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2003-06-27T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/national-do-not-call-registry\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T20:42:25","slug":"national-do-not-call-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/national-do-not-call-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"National Do Not Call Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC has set up a registry to block telemarketing calls. Sign up at <a href=\"http:\/\/donotcall.gov\/\">DoNotCall.gov<\/a>. The server might be slammed right now, though. Apparently they&#8217;re getting hundreds of registrations every minute. As of 5PM ET, they had 735,000 registrations. You can read more about the Do Not Call Registry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/donotcall\/\">the FTC site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also take steps to stop receiving junk mail at home: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkbusters.com\/junkmail.html\">Junkbusters<\/a> provides information and form letters to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to prevent telemarketing calls and junk mail is to send in those opt-out notices that your financial institutions provide. They often allow opt-outs by telephone, too. Credit card offers usually also provide a telephone number to opt-out of credit reporting agency spam lists. One phone call will take you off the lists of Experian, TransUnion, and the rest for two years. They&#8217;ll send you a form that you need to return if you want to make this permanent. So annoying, but worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I could only get the ACLU and ActForChange to stop sending me junk mail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC has set up a registry to block telemarketing calls. Sign up at DoNotCall.gov. The server might be slammed right now, though. Apparently they&#8217;re getting hundreds of registrations every minute. As of 5PM ET, they had 735,000 registrations. You can read more about the Do Not Call Registry at the FTC site. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}