michaelrkn

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by michaelrkn 14y ago
The best place to report illegal calls is http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm . Your local police department probably won't have any idea what to do with the complaint. Good luck!
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by michaelrkn 14y ago
That's why I didn't sue for any of the calls after I talked to a rep - only the automated calls, and the call that came after I asked to be on the DNC list.
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by michaelrkn 14y ago
Thanks to Voice over IP, this is pretty much impossible to regulate any more. The telephone networks were built on a trust model that VoIP destroyed. Now, you can originate a call on the internet that's nearly impossible to trace.
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by michaelrkn 14y ago
Hi Sentient. We actually mainly work with political campaigns, which are exempt from the regulations. I don't think we benefit from the uncertainty; it makes it difficult to explain to potential customers what is and isn't legal, and we tur
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by michaelrkn 14y ago
Hi Corin. I asked to be on their internal DNC list, and several days later, they called me again. That's illegal. Don't you think companies should have to respect your requests to be put on their DNC lists? I mean, if you unsubscribed from
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I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000(impactdialing.com)
346 points by michaelrkn 14y ago|145 comments
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by michaelrkn 14y ago
also see: apple, twilio, ikea
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by michaelrkn 16y ago
leave a comment at the bottom of the post if you like what you read! -michael@impactdialing
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by michaelrkn 17y ago
funny you ask. i just posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027584 .
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by michaelrkn 17y ago
gotta love that, right? i'm figuring that once this is built really well for political applications that i'll take it to commercial market as well and deal with all the regulations at that point. commercial clients can provide a nice stabil
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by michaelrkn 17y ago
yeah, twilio seems pretty cool, and i'm looking at it for another voice/political project. but it's basically an api for level 3 with some nifty features tacked on, so for a project as voice-heavy as a predictive dialer that doesn't need th
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VOIP + Cloud = Better Political Campaigns(docs.google.com)
5 points by michaelrkn 17y ago|8 comments