And to practice what we preach about civility (Sid, must this also include the cursed "hawks"?), a word about the Gov. - Pretty clever there Gov.
As background for a little weekend levity, this past Monday Gov. reacted to the talk that has been floating around that several cell phone companies are looking to build a nationwide "Wireless 411 Directory."
The governor's solution to help Georgia cell phone users keep their names of our cell phone directories is to force cell phone companies that wish to list numbers in a directory to get Georgia customers' written permission first.
While reading from prepared remarks at a news conference called by the governor to announce that such legislation had been introduced, a half-dozen reporters' phones began to ring or buzz, causing several of them embarrassment as they snatched phones from their pockets and turned them off.
Turns out the callers were Perdue staffers, adding a bit of show biz to the event.
(The Macon Telegraph, 01-29-05.)
The governor's solution to help Georgia cell phone users keep their names of our cell phone directories is to force cell phone companies that wish to list numbers in a directory to get Georgia customers' written permission first.
While reading from prepared remarks at a news conference called by the governor to announce that such legislation had been introduced, a half-dozen reporters' phones began to ring or buzz, causing several of them embarrassment as they snatched phones from their pockets and turned them off.
Turns out the callers were Perdue staffers, adding a bit of show biz to the event.
(The Macon Telegraph, 01-29-05.)
posted by Sid Cottingham | 9:02 AM
3 Comments:
Sid,
I originally said the same thing ("good job governor"), until I was convinced that the legislation is absolutely pointless, since it's already illegal under federal law for a telemarketer to call a cell phone. What the AP article I read originally failed to mention is the industry-proposed cell phone directory is supposed to be opt-in, not opt-out, and is intended to mainly be used for businesses. No one is added unless they ask to be, not the other way around.
Related... state-level email spam legislation of any kind is a total joke. The feds can't even keep up with the technology.
I don't believe the legislation is anything more than a headline grabber. I did think it was clever of his staff to call the reporters during the press conference.
I was at the press conference announcing the anti-spam legislation a few weeks ago, and Perdue basically admitted that the law would only apply to spam that originated from Georgia.
Since more and more of this junk e-mail is moving offshore (and I doubt much of it comes from GA anyway), the whole law is pretty pointless.
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