"Wisconsin's No Call List is effective January 1, 2003. Signing up identifies you as someone who does not wish to receive telemarketing calls. It's free and available for residential telephone customers in Wisconsin. Your number will remain on the List for two years. Adding your residential phone number to the List will help reduce (but not eliminate) telemarketing calls to your home." To get on the list you call 1-866-NO-CALL (1-866-966-2255) toll-free in Wisconsin or visit their we site at Wisconsin No Call List. Contact Info: Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection NO Call Program 2811 Agriculture Dr PO Box 8911 Madison WI 53708-8911 Call: 608 224-4999 Fax: 608 224-4939 TTY: 608 224-5058 E-mail: WINoCall@datcp.state.wi.us

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Annoyances I just like you comment on my dislike of the recent trend of most of the commercial web pages. I really dislike those pop-up windows showing up everywhere. From what I have read, very few people ever browse these links. All it does is waste my time online when I need to find information in the shortest length of time. The pop under windows are the worst! When you leave a page up pops the window. To be sneaky, I have even disconnect my connection, closed my browser and up pops a window.. trigging my system to try and reconnect. That's my number one annoyance. My second annoyance, cookies. Just about every site I visit wants to set a cookie. The only really useful use of cookies is that they can help you log into a site without manually doing so. The down side is that if you delete that cookie and didn't save your login information you maybe in trouble. As for the other sites, all they want to do is track your browsing history. I have even been to web sites that have software to download but if you reject the cookie you may be unable to download the file.. That's really being arrogant on their part.