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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (38896)	9/26/2003 9:52:44 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 74559

It looks like Telemarketer's dream came true and they don't have to pay for this very high hit ratio list (almost 100%). FTC: Telemarketers Can Keep Calling By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Telemarketers will be free to make sales pitches next week to people who registered for the national do-not-call list, the government said Friday. At the same time, the industry's largest association was urging its members to respect the wishes of the millions who say they don't want to be bothered. The Federal Trade Commission acknowledged that a federal judge's ruling in Denver that the registry infringes on telemarketers' free speech rights left the agency with no authority to enforce the list, which was scheduled to take effect next Wednesday. "You can still put your number on the national registry," the FTC said in a statement posted on its Web site, "but for now, telemarketers are not required to comply with it." .....