Assuming that "business" and "charity" is a sufficient classification scheme for telemarketing, wouldn't it make sense to produce a second DNC list? That way, people can specify the class(es) of telemarketers by which they do not wish to be contacted. I envisage that the restrictions would apply to telemarketing businesses operating on behalf of charities, rather than the charities themselves, but scrupulous charities which make their own calls would do well to follow such a list voluntarily, if it existed.

And of course the telemarketers will fight it tooth and nail: their primary target market is "people who can't say no". Get that demographic on the phone and you've made the sale, if you're pushy enough. The DNC list offers those poor suckers a defensive measure. Oh, calamity.

The pontification continues at Nutters.org [nutters.org].