[Re: Loose Cannon: Mother Jones, Please Call The Home Office, Direct Newsline, Mar. 15, 2004]:
I am so happy to not receive telephone calls at home from telemarketers, and not hear that strange clicking when no one is there, that a clear do-not-call list is very high on my list of good things that have happened. The same approach, I hope, is coming to email spam.
I just put this address on my block list: list141.times4u.net. The company gets around being on a blocked list by changing its address. For example, previously it might have been list145. And the company says in a disclaimer that it got my name from something I had supposedly said was ok to send from. And that’s a stretch, to be most kind about it.
So don’t whine at me. Just don’t call me, period, and don’t pretend that having a leader to take a different approach is useful. If I want to receive information, I will subscribe, like I do to the Direct Marketing on-line newsletter. Otherwise, leave me alone.
That’s the message, and as long as people in the industry, like list141.times4u, play their games, the more a clear, up-and-down, do-not-send regulation is both necessary and appropriate.
David Newman
Business Communications Services
Eugene, OR
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