This situation sounds seriously stupid to me;  I received an awful automated phone call trying to sell me an alarm, but not identifying the company responsible, so I followed their process to be contacted by a sales person.  When the sales person phoned me some days later, I then asked for the company name, and explained how much I hate having automated advertising calls on my private home phone.  She told me that the company responsible (rhymes with Alarm & Camera Warehouse) maintains its own Do Not Call list! Is it just me, or is there something idiotic about that?  Why bother maintaining the list if you are going to submit people to that to get on it?

I asked her if she was aware that the Marketing Association already maintains a Do Not Call list in New Zealand, but apparently that had never been heard of before.

Finally, I get to my point!  Is there a need to petition the government regarding unsolicited advertising on our home phones?  I mean, there is no shortage of advertising options everywhere we look or listen already, and it appears that adding your number to the list maintained by the Marketing Association isn't worth spit.

[p.s. still want to learn the identity behind that "important message to all New Zealanders" automated call]