It is offending a lot of people's sense of propriety for a very small fulfillment of demand.
This if from yesterday's Post article. It boggles my mind that either group would want to call people who will just hang up on them or worse. I suppose they're just desperate.
<<The two industry trade groups that challenged the registry in court were split on their advice to members about what to do on Wednesday.
The Direct Marketing Association, which brought the Oklahoma City case, advised its members to adhere to the do-not-call list even though it is no longer mandatory. "We do not want to call people who say they don't want to get calls," said the group's president, H. Robert Wientzen. DMA represents 4,700 firms in the United States, including many of the publishers, telecommunications firms and financial services firms that use the phone as one way to market their goods.
But Tim Searcy, executive director of the American Teleservices Association, which brought the Denver suit, said he is advising his group's members to continue to call consumers after Oct. 1. "From a consumer point of view, I don't think much will change at first," he said. "The judge said it was illegal to create the list, which gives you the impression it's illegal to use the list."
The ATA is made up of 650 firms that make phone calls to consumers' homes, often on behalf of other companies. It has aggressively fought the do-not-call list because telephone solicitations are its members' main business. The DMA membership, on the other hand, uses direct mail and other ways to reach consumers.>> |
