Originally Posted by MrFatbooty

They being who, the phone company?

I figure between the do not call list and putting the disconnected tone on your answering machine that should probably help.

I'm a bit skeptical about the disconnected tone trick though. I work for my school calling up alumni for donations, and we use telemarketing software to do it. Our software is only designed to hang up if the phone rings a total of five times. Since most answering machines pick up after four rings, the disconnected tone wouldn't trick it. In fact if we get a disconnected tone the computer does absolutely nothing. We hear that and wait and see if it's only a disconnected message or if it says the number has been changed.

But we run a relatively unsophisticated operation, so maybe the more up-to-date calling centers are easier to fool.