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Well, we have a similar thing to DNC in the UK, but...
1) The worst companies ignore it anyway.
2) It doesn't apply to calls from outside the UK.
Hence, I keep a 100dB+ air horn beside the phone...
Legal attempts to block spam emails would work just as well: how many of the ones you receive come from within your own country? Your government can't do anything about ones from outside!
But...Outlook has rules: and one of mine is that it is free to delete anything which arrives from a Russian (.RU, .SU, or .РФ) domain. This reduced the spam by over 50% immediately.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Your government can't do anything about ones from outside!
Within continental US, the torturous telemarketers are those Remit2India and Phone Calling Card companies. Despite reporting to FCC and NDNC they do not budge. Looks like sitting across the border, they are literally perpetrating viral wire/wire-free terrorism into the country. Looks like CBP (Customs and Border Protection) should bring a wireless/wire border also for the country and enrol the same under their realm.
OriginalGriff wrote: how many of the ones you receive come from within your own country?
Back in India what I have observed is laxity of telephone operators in enforcing disciplinary action on erring telemarketers is a boon for the latter. For example, I had one AGM from BSNL Chennai giving a false message that TRAI amended rules and customer need to find which network operator the call originated from and report the same to that operator themselves. If this is the level of inertia and ethics with network operators, telemarketing folks will find themselves in virtual haven of all sorts.
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So if India has laws to regulate DNC which are not being enforced where is the point in bringing in DNE anyway? 
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"Hence, I keep a 100dB+ air horn beside the phone..."
Now there's a fine idea.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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They don't call back 
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OriginalGriff wrote: 100dB+ air horn beside the phone...
I want one of them for email, what a great kickstarter product, you would be thoroughly over subscribed trying to invent one of them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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OriginalGriff wrote: Hence, I keep a 100dB+ air horn beside the phone...
Well, given the quality of phone lines, the only thing that does is deafen yourself.
On the other hand, whenever my neighbor hangs up, her phone line emits this really piercing shreak noise. Would be great to use that directly on the phone line itself.
Marc
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For some reason till a few months back my landline used to do that. Everytime I hang up the phone for a few seconds it used to fart like that.
Thanks to my provider (BSNL, Chennai) they managed to troubleshoot the line issue and fixed the same.
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Given that governments sell their DNC lists to individual companies that aren't obligated to follow laws in foreign countries, I'd rather have these lists not exist at all.
And I wouldn't want my email address to be part of an equivalent email list.
Perhaps what we need instead is a spam filter for the phone system, where you get to establish your own rules.
Not that it does anything for what you asked for.
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(Posted on behalf of Jacquers[^] who can't be with us today)
Go near fresh fruit (6)
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Turquoise?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Close but no banana!
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"Orange" -> anagram 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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And you are up on Monday (despite Mark Wallace trying not to get it!  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: despite Mark Wallace trying not to get it
Yes, I know. I vote for him to set one for Monday.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I think he will vote against, which will leave the Monday setter unchanged: you!
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Movie Quote Of The Day
When I asked for your advice, I didn't mean that you should actually speak.
Which movie?
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What Women Want
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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den2k88 wrote: I use 1TBS
Indeed, so do I: 4 of 'em, in RAID5 in my NAS.
But for code, I use the much superior Whitesmiths layout.
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I put that in my sig especially to annoy you  mission accomplished! Whitesmiths is the one I like less, I find it too dirty (too many lines with only a symbol and no meaning) and too hard to regognize blocks.
After much tinkering with indent styles I settled on 1TBS and the occasional Stroustroup functions-on-a-line (even if after some time I usually refactor it on a pure 1TBS).
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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I will (of course) immediately embark on a campaign of retribution, downvoting everything you have ever posted, will ever post, and are posting. Anywhere on the internet.
In addition, I will track you down physically and ruin your life: get you fired, evicted, arrested, and addicted to Ice, until you die penniless in horrible poverty in half a cardboard box in the street.
Or is that going a smidgen too far?
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My favourites were the ones who'd threaten to call the FBI, because you'd committed the great crime of not agreeing with their stoopid ideas.
I'd reply with "F$%^&@# British, I, you F$%^&@# Braindead Idiot!"
... With varying degrees of KSS-ness, depending on the forum.
Thankfully, a large proportion of Internet users have grown up, since then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: superior Whitesmiths layout
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts." - Anon. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yes, but this is the internet. So "my opinion" is always both "fact" and "right"!
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