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Dear Coach: I call on consumers. You keep saying that the "do not call" list is not bad for cold calling. At this point, there are 64 million numbers on the list so how can you say it's not a bad thing? Coach Says: First of all, the only real difference between 64 million people who hated getting cold calls in 2002 and 64 million on a "do not call" list in 2005 is that you don't have to waste your time (or theirs) calling them. But 64 million does sound like a lot so let me throw some statistics at ya, too. It's surprisingly hard to find out how many land-line phones there are in the U.S.. Though I found a 2001 figure of 112 million, the 2000 census data is probably more reliable.
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