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Article: New Mexicans Overwhelmingly Support Limits on Telemarketing.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- February 6, 2003
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By Rosalie Rayburn, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 6--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--More than 600 New Mexicans have given an emphatic thumbs down to telemarketing calls in written responses to a recent survey paid for by the state Attorney General's Office.
An overwhelming majority -- 94 percent of the 624 people who sent in replies said they would support some form of do-not-call list. Ninety-one percent said they found telemarketing calls "annoying and intrusive" instead of "helpful and informative."
And state Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, is using those results to promote legislation that will establish a ...