Reply #2: Looks as if my own preference is winning. [View All]

[mlawson]

I voted for #1 for several reasons, but the most pressing one was, that these calls are hard on many of the elderly. My mother, while still living alone, received the calls, sometimes after she had gone to bed. Already somewhat senile, she never understood what the callers wanted, and often was frightened by the ones in which no one said anything. Once, while I was there, a company called her THREE times, trying to sell her a vaction home at Hilton Head. When she handed me the receiver, I tore that one a new asshole! It's a wonder she never fell, trying to get to the phone!

IMO, the calls are a complete invasion of our privacy. I have no sympathy for those who work as telemarketers. None. Zero. Nada.