Opting out of telespam and snailspam

The Red Dot Campaign has been around for a while and has been pretty successful in helping Canadians get rid of junk mail. Michael Geist has set up an equivalent for telemarketers. iOptOut is like the American Do Not Call Registry.

Unfortunately I feel a bit of a disconnect here. iOptOut will be useful for my parents, sure, but I don’t own a landline and neither does anyone I know. Everyone has gone cellular, partly because it’s cheaper and partly because there’s no telemarketers.