[Vision2020] "Do Not Call" bill passes

[Ron Force]

>From "Media Riffs":


DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO? A story in today's Hartford (Conn.) Courant
claims 11 top executives in the telemarketing industry - or at least their
phone numbers - have been signed up for the national do-not-call list that
the industry has been fighting in court. The Courant reviewed the 50 million
phone numbers on the list so far and found the home numbers of members of
the Direct Marketing Association and chief executives of two telemarketing
companies. At least one DMA executive claims that someone is trying to
embarrass him by signing his number up via the Internet. It's true that no
names are collected, just telephone numbers. Yet another DMA executive
admitted it, telling the Courant anonymously: "I registered there myself
personally. For the same reason that other consumers have. I don't want to
be bothered by telemarketing calls."

********************************************
Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
********************************************