Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!dave From: dave@rlgvax.UUCP (Dave Maxey) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.flame,net.legal Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls Message-ID: <1818@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 00:00:14 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1818 Posted: Mon Mar 19 00:00:14 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 08:00:07 EST References: <253@teldata.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 24 Here in northern Virginia, C & P has listed the following in their phone books under Consumer Rights and Responsibilities: "The Virginia Telephone Solicitation Ethics Council, composed of consumers, business, government and regulated telephone industry repre- sentatives has endorsed a Code of Ethics for telephone solicitation in the Commonwealth.... " One of the rules listed requires that telephone solicitors "make telephone solicitations only between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m." They further state that this code is "through voluntary compliance" and also that if you have a complaint it should be referred first to the telephone company and next to "the Complaint Committee of the Virginia Telephone Solicitation Ethics Council for further action." They also list rules about identifying who they are, what firm they are from, not employing deception or fraud and responding to questions in a forthright and nondeceptive manner. Nowhere do they actually state that phone solicitation is a crime or that solicitors could be prosecuted for badgering people. This seems to indicate that there are no laws in our area. Besides, even if there were, how do you prevent something like that across state lines? - Dave Maxey (alias tbm) {seismo,mcnc,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!dave