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  • From: "Josef Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: speaking of telemarketers
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:05:20 -0400


And here's the link to the DMA's opt-out list:
http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/offtelephonedave

I can vouch for the direct-mail opt out list they have - it worked great
when I used it a few years ago:
http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/offmailinglistdave

Costs $5 though. (cheaper than caller ID, methinks)

Joe K

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] speaking of telemarketers


>
http://24hour.newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/1384783p-1419336c.html
>
> Cooper wants NC phone users to opt out of telemarketing
>
> CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Attorney General Roy Cooper is lobbying state
> legislators to create a registry that would allow phone users to block
> many telemarketing calls.
>
> Direct marketers doing business in North Carolina would be required to
> register with the state and buy a list of phone numbers of residents that
> don't want to be called. Nonprofit groups would be exempt.
>
> Cooper discussed details of the proposed no-call registry at a news
> conference Thursday in Charlotte. The regular session of the General
> Assembly begins May 28.
>
> Twenty-two other states have passed similar laws, though they vary in
> effectiveness.
>
> A spokesman for the Direct Marketing Association said such a law would do
> more harm than good in a state like North Carolina, which has sparsely
> populated areas with little commercial competition.
>
> "What's happening here is political bandwagon-jumping," said Louis
> Mastria, whose group represents more than 4,700 businesses. "The
> legitimate guys are being punished for the sins of the few fly-by-night
> guys."
>
> Last year, about 185 million Americans bought something based on telephone
> solicitations. More than 6 million people nationally, and 166,000 North
> Carolinians, work in telemarketing.
>
> Cooper -- who said he received a telemarketing call within five minutes of
> activating a new residential line at his Raleigh home earlier this week --
> believes it's an issue of consumer choice.
>
> "They have the right to say who can come in their front door," he said.
> "They should have the same right when it comes to sales pitches over the
> phone."
>
> The state already bans telemarketing calls before 6 a.m. and after 9 p.m.
> Last year, a coalition of businesses blocked a bill that would have
> prohibited telemarketing calls after 6 p.m.
>
> Cooper said the list would cost the state $900,000 to begin, but would be
> self-sustaining thereafter, thanks to fees that would be charged to
> telemarketers. Consumers would register by mail, telephone or Internet and
> the service would be free.
>
> Cooper cited Missouri's no-call registry law as a model for his proposal.
> That law says telephone companies and other businesses that have an
> "ongoing relationship" with a consumer do not have to abide by the no-call
> list.
>
> Missouri charges telemarketers $600 annually for updated lists from all
> six of its area codes, and fines businesses up to $5,000 for each
> violation.
>
> Cooper said he was not sure how much North Carolina would charge for its
> list, or what kind of penalties would be levied against companies that
> broke the rules.
>
> Mastria said his group already keeps its own no-call registry, which
> consumers can join for free. He said the list has some 5 million phone
> numbers on it.
>
>
>
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