Some on no-call list still receiving calls

FORT WAYNE -- Telemarketers still are phoning Hoosiers whose names are on a new no-call list, but apparently less frequently.\nSince the law took effect Jan. 1, the state has received about 79 formal complaints -- about one for every 10,000 people on the list, Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter said Tuesday.\nNancy Robinson of Fort Wayne filed five of them. She keeps a copy of the no-call law beside her phone so she can explain it to telemarketers.\n"I felt that when the law went into effect I would have something to fight with," she told The Journal Gazette for a story published Wednesday.\nMore than 780,000 people signed up for the no-call list by the initial deadline in December -- a cutoff date that was extended because of the law's overwhelming popularity.\nAnother 100,000 who have signed up since then will be added to the list when it is updated in April.\nThe law still allows charities and other nonprofit organizations to solicit donations over the phone, provided they use their own employees or volunteers and not a professional telemarketing company. \nNewspapers, insurance agents and real estate agents also are exempt from the law.\nSo far, efforts to add more exemptions to the law have been unsuccessful. A Senate bill filed earlier this month to allow more exemptions to the list has been withdrawn, Attorney General Steve Carter said. A lawsuit challenging the law was previously dropped.\nBut Carter said that other attempts to change the law are likely because of the large lobbying force against the bill.