All right!
Michael Goldstein in the NY Daily News on Disconnecting telemarketers:

Relief is on the way. Telemarketers are at bay. The home phone may finally be reclaimed from their grasp.

The Federal Trade Commission has officially opened a nationwide "do not call" registry, which when implemented in July is designed to reduce unwanted calls by up to 80%.
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The federal do-not-call list was started in the House of Representatives by Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), who launched it with a warning:

"If anyone holds this legislation up, we're prepared to give out their home phone numbers."

Now that is a threat!

But don't celebrate freedom from nuisance calls just yet.

First, the national list won't go into effect for more than six months. The FTC needs time to create the registry, for consumers to sign up, beginning in July, and for telemarketers to search the registry and "scrub" consumers from the lists, which they won't be forced to do until October.

And of course there is a law suit - the Direct Marketing Association is claiming infringement of their "first amendment right to advertise."