i actually heard the flack from the other big trade group make the preposterous claim that "people don't want the gubmint telling them who they can get calls from", a rather slimey way of describing what over 50 million people quite clearly do want. i do not know how these people comb their hair w/o looking in mirror.
-- no Onan
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Telemarketing Insiders On Do-Not-Call List 4:51 PM EDT,September 30, 2003 By JACK DOLAN, The Hartford Courant
The home telephone numbers of 11 top executives of the Direct Marketing Association - which has waged a bitter court battle to kill a proposed federal no-call list - are on the new federal registry, making them off-limits to those annoying early evening sales calls.
The Hartford Courant found the numbers of the DMA employees, and chief executives from two large telemarketing companies, among the 50 million numbers on the Federal Trade Commission's anti-telemarketing Do Not Call list.
The DMA executives who have apparently signed up to protect their own privacy did so even as their organization waged a legal campaign to prevent federal regulators from protecting the privacy of millions of other Americans.
Included on the list are two senior vice presidents, three vice presidents, and four directors. Two people on the Do Not Call registry were listed as DMA executives in the company's 2002 annual report, but have retired from the organization within the last year.
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