"Celebrating" The Do Not Call's 10th Anniversary

most of the callers are using a headset these days...National Do Not Call List is not working but my airhorn in their ears seems to work just fine...makes me wonder how many have lost their hearing because of my airhorn

when you get a real person on the phone..blow their fricken ear drums out with an airhorn....my calls have dropped by almost 75%...I almost look forward to receiving calls from the sorry SOB's that can't a real job

The DNC, I think is older than 10 years as stated in 2013. If I remember correctly, I first entered my phone # in the 90's. Doesn't do much good though. I believe that if they truly want to stop this crap, they can. With the sophistication of computers today, there is someone smart enough that can write code to install in the switches to stop it.

We always thought we were last household to acquire  caller id..... No id or known caller we do not pickup.  And usually caller does not leave message.      These type of callers are now down to a maximum 2 a day.   Nothing compared to the numbers accumulated by people's who seem to live to continue answering their phone when called by unknowns/unrequested/unidentified  !!  And then get all stressed out, when it actually is self-inflected,  it seems.

Most automated calls are digital.  Digital certificates/keys etc are easy.  Valid certificates/keys should be issued to legitimate, researched, validated businesses.  The device would allow valid certificates and disallow invalid.  This is way better and more effective than a DNC list that is hacked.  Building and securing the list of registered businesses would be easy but updating the devices would be harder.  Probably needs to be an app you update on your device or it receives auto updates via wi-fi, because then realistically how big can it be?  The phone companies would be better off selling it as a service on their end.  Give me caller ID and screen my calls for me please. I tell the phone company it's okay to allow political crap or surveys but not allow magazine sales or something.  Of course then you have to create classifications for the licensing.  etc etc. :)

I have a crystal ball next to every phone in my house.  It tells me whether the call is from a human or not.

The do not call list is a joke !!!!  Been registered since day one ... Still get anywhere from 5 - 30 robocalls and telemarketing calls every week.

DNC is useless, so is the FTC. If you're tired of getting these stupid calls and/or messages, you can stop them if you wanted to bad enough. I did, and it's easy.

The "do not call list" is a falsehood.  I get anywhere from 10 - 30 robocalls and telemarketing calls daily.  Many are Medicare Supplement Insurers, most however are spoofed numbers using my area code and local exchange. Even have a collection agency chasing my ex for a 20 yr-old debt. My ex moved out in 1998.

I have taken the opposite approach to blocking or opting out because it doesn't work. I get anywhere from 2 to 10 robo spam calls from local numbers on my business line per day. I have to answer the calls, it's my business line. I now answer the calls and always press 1 to speak to a rep. I always ask what company and the location they are calling from. Most will not give me the information and hang up.  If they do give me the information, I come here and enter it. I will waste as much of their time as I can to prevent them from making any money. So far I have noticed that "Rachel from Card Services" no longer calls me and am seeing a decline in the "You are pre-approved for a $250,000 business loan" calls. I am making progress.

One of our local phone companies does that.  When you call one of their numbers, a recording comes on saying they do not accept "solicitor calls" and you have to press 1 to connect to them.  All phone companies should do this.

The fastest way to shut these down would be to make the telephone companies have to pay for every unwanted call. They would shut it down in minutes.

Do not put your name on the donotcall registry.  the telemarketers actually use this because they know that there is a live person on the other end. just don't answer and report the number to the ftc, maybe one day they will do their job.

It might actually be worth celebrating if it worked as intended.
All it seems to be is a list of valid phone numbers for spammers and scammers to exploit.
How about putting some teeth into it?
Like 3-5 years in Club Fed being gang raped daily for all violators.
One strike you be gone.
Betcha that would get the attention of the violators right quick.

There is no way for spammers to "download" the numbers on the DNC list.  Stop spreading false information!