[Peace-discuss] Cell phone numbers go public tomorrow.....important..... (no they don't!)

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:47:19AM -0600, Habari Connection wrote:
> 
> Jessica Haigler <Jessica_Haigler at Mastercard.com> wrote: 
   [...]
> Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow
> 
> REMINDER....all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing
> companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sale calls.
   [...]
> To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:
> 
> 1-888-382-1222.
> 
> It is the National DO NOT CALL list It will only take a minute of your time
> 
>  www.donotcall.gov


Wait -- don't forward this!  This story has been going around for years,
but it's *not true*.  See the Urban Legends Reference Pages:

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

Germ of truth, mentioned in this Snopes page: several
national wireless companies hired Qsent, Inc. to create
a Wireless 411 service, to be made available to
(only) Directory Assistance providers, and *only if*
individual cell customers ask to be added to it.
But that does *not* mean that those records are given to
telemarketers, distributed over the Internet, published in
book form, etc.  They won't.

It shouldn't do any harm to list your cell-phone in the national
Do Not Call list, but there's no point in doing it.

(I've set Reply-To: to me.)