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   Stuart | May 10, 2005 02:13am | #1

   http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

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   billsams | May 10, 2005 02:24am | #2

   Thank you Ron & Stuart for the timely reminders and information!!!!!!
   Bill

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   MarkRD | May 10, 2005 02:50am | #3

   Stuart, you should have stressed that this "release" is bogus.Please everyone, before you forward a message like the do-not-call list message (or the Mrs. Fields cookie recipe etc.) Check out Snopes.com. A great myth debunker.Mark

   Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an ax.

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   nikkiwood | May 10, 2005 04:25am | #4

   So where do we stand here? Are they going to start using cell phone numbers for telemarketing -- or not?If they do, I can only imagine the fire storm of protests................."I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
   -- Bertrand Russell

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   Stuart | May 10, 2005 04:47am | #5

   From the Snopes site:

   "Here's the truth: A national directory will be compiled, but numbers will be included on an opt-in basis. If a cell phone subscriber does nothing, the number will not be listed. When the directory is ready, it will be available only as part of the existing 411 directory service, accessed by calling in and asking for a specific number. It will not be published in a book or on the Internet. And it will not be sold to telemarketers. Cell phone subscribers can list their numbers on the do-not-call registry if they choose, but there is no deadline to get on the list, as the e-mail messages now circulating suggest."

   You'll only get put on the directory list if you ask to be put on it.