Urban Legend: Cell Phone Do Not Call List
Can everyone please CHILL OUT?! It’s not true, OK?
Via Snopes:
- A consortium of wireless providers is planning to create a 411 (directory assistance) service for cell phone numbers: True.
- You must register your cell phone before 1 Janunary 2005 to prevent your number from being provided to telemarketers: False.
According to the article, the Wireless 411 directory would be "opt-in" — that is, you will only be added if you specifically request to be added. If you do nothing, you will not be included. If you choose to be listed, then you change your mind, you can have your number removed at no charge. The Wireless 411 information will not be in phone books, distributed in other printed form, made available on the internet, or sold to telemarketers. It will only be available to operator service centers performing the 411 directory assistance service.
And, while I’m at it, can we PLEASE stop believing everything we read, just because someone sent you an email? Do you know how many urban legends are out there? A LOT. Snopes.com lists over 2000 alone. Before being so guillable, I suggest you check every email at their site before forwarding it to everyone on your contact list. And if you’re not going to do that, then please, at least remove me from your contact list!
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*snort* Can I add an “amen” to that? And may I also add that I especially hate getting forwarded 20 copies of the latest e-mail that gets passed around claiming death and destruction if you don’t pass it to 50 people within an hour. I’ll take the bedlam over you junking up my inbox, thanks.
But my aunt forwarded me an e-mail she got from some gal in her office that says if you visit snopes.com for even ONE SECOND you’ll need to take the claw end of a hammer to your cpu to get rid of the viruses it will load onto your computer. Also the people who run it are part of a terrorist sleeper cell that gives LSD to preschoolers.
There should be a law that you can’t sign up for an ISP until you vist the snopes site, and pass a test that shows you can recognize an urban legend on sight, or at least have the sixth sense to go do some research on it. The ISP would be linked to snopes, and you’d have to enter a code to prove you took the test. that would eliminated at least 10% of the gullible idiots on the net.
(ok so it would never happen, but hey, dreaming’s free!)
You know what really bugs me? The damn PENNY BROWN email? Give it a rest people! How long has that thing been out there? And really, do you REALLY think something is going to pop up on your screen that is really really cool if you forward this to 16 people? My favorite is how Bill Gates will send a dollar to everyone. Yeah right. Its almost as if some people believe that there are little monkeys inside our CPUs that actually run the thing…