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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:31:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@xxxxxxx>
Subject: DMA CEO's don't like their own calls
To: farber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Farber)
<http://www.sunspot.net/business/bal-execs0930,0,6956913.story?coll=bal-business-headlines>
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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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