The US Do Not Call registry is offline

Considering I still get a ton of spam calls, I really wonder how well it worked in the first place.

rogerrogerr 190 days ago | |

Start answering them and try to string them along as long as possible. That’s the only way you can send a signal that calling this number is actively unprofitable.

Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.

clbrmbr 190 days ago | | |

But my time is valuable… but I would pay OpenAI's V2V rates for the privilege of stringing along scammers. I need a button “transfer to time waster agent”.

kemotep 190 days ago | | |

You could also transfer them to your Uncle Lenny. He can talk for hours if need be.

https://lennytroll.com/

Eddy_Viscosity2 190 days ago | | |

If you pay for a service like this, you will inadvertently create more spam callers. OpenAI will start (secretly) creating spam AI agents to create demand for their AI waster agents.

OvidStavrica 190 days ago |

I fully expected that this registry is an automated system.

I'm struggling to understand why this system would be offline while the FTS website is still online: https://www.ftc.gov/

Is there a technical reason for the registry to go offline, or is it an intentional casualty of the power struggle in DC?

Brybry 190 days ago | |

If you look at the wayback machine, it was offline with a similar message during the 2013 and 2018/2019 shutdowns, too.

thrill 190 days ago |

That’ll save all the spam callers a little time not checking and then ignoring it.

jmclnx 190 days ago |

I know I am a bit late to the party, nothing of value was lost here.

I never signed up for it because I know this is really a method for giving telemarketers a list of good phone numbers. I hardly get any calls were people I know who signed up gets lots.

That is because these companies opened up subsidiaries in foreign countries and used the list to call people. Many calls people I know get are from spoofed numbers located in other countries.

nashashmi 190 days ago |

Does the do not call system actually work?

hysan 190 days ago | |

Doubt it. I used it for several years and then forgot one year. Same amount of spam. Decided to see how it would go if I stopped and I see no difference in the amount of spam calls since.

more_corn 190 days ago |

Didn’t work anyway