We're on the Do Not Call list, but we still get prerecorded calls from the likes of "Heather" and her fellow drones. Why is this happening? It's terribly annoying.

Luckily we came across this post by Herb Weisbaum, aka ConsumerMan at MSNBC, while we were researching another topic. He says you can now opt out of these calls -- and can do it quite simply.

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/smartspending/archive/2009/01/26/stop-getting-prerecorded-telemarketing-calls.aspx