paulino Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the telephone preference service (TPS) does not > prevent you from receiving cold calls. it means > that your are removed from 'lists' of > names/numbers, but it does not prevent companies > from using random digit dialling, and randomly > coming through to your number. just wanted to > point this out - i spent many tedious > evenings/weekends working in a market research > call centre as a student and often found people > getting extremely irate and upset, wondering why > they were receiving calls when they were on the > TPS, and not believing me/listening to me when i > tried to explain the above! Oh that was you was it? You owe me a Vesta curry. Stone bloody cold it was by the time I'd finished trying to get you off the line. Chicken.