Re: Telemarketing on Sunday

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Lawrence" <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 6:46 PM
Subject: Telemarketing on Sunday


> At 6:30 this evening I received a telemarketing call
> from A&M Group Reserch. The call was place through an
> auto-dialer device and I was greeted with a recorded
> voice telling me they were reserching what radio and
> television station I listen to or watch, household
> income etc.
> Last time I checked, it was illegal for telemarking
> calls to be placed in the State of Maine on a Sunday.
> Does anyone else know anything about this? Thanks in
> advance.

I don't know if Maine has such a law, but if the call was placed from
outside of Maine, which is likely the case, the law would not apply.  States
can not regulate interstate commerce.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine