If you haven't noticed already, technology has made it possible now for solicitors to leave a voice mail for you (via your phone service provider) without your phone ever ringing. The solicitors in question feel that this is an unobtrusive method of getting their message out. I disagree. It's bad enough that I have to deal with phone spam, but it's something I can ignore by not answering. Junk e-mail can be blocked or filtered, TV and radio ads can be ignored by turning the thing off, etc. Junk voice mail is not as easily avoided and that's why I have a problem with it. Yeah, sure, you can fast-forward through messages, but why should you have to? What happens when your allocated message space on the phone service's servers is full of spam and someone is trying to leave you a legit message? Keep in mind also that when you check your messages on your cell phone, that goes against your airtime minutes. As it happens, the CRTC is currently looking at this phenomenon and the advertisers / marketers are lobbying very hard to make this legal. If the idea of uncontrolled junk voice mail does not appeal to you, contact the CRTC now and tell them your concerns.
Remember - only you can stop junk voice mail!
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