Re: opt-out registry comments

andre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.ioz
Organization andre
Message-ID <[email protected]>
dominic  said on Monday, August 01, 2011 :
> Wanton defamers, purveyors of false claims & malicious detractors
> beware....
> http://www.dmasa.org/dmasa/dma_extra.php?id=269
> Response from: The Direct Marketing Association of South Africa
> 
Any direct email marketing should be illegal, even the first/initial email
as in SA, I am paying for my bandwidth and it is disgusting that I have
to pay to receive any marketing from Viagra/Insurance/Training and other
spammers. Where the consumer is paying for bandwidth, any unsolicited
direct and mass marketing is EVIL and wrong.

Then, regarding phone calls and sms's: I sell my time and yet someone
has the 'right' to call me, consume my time for free?

How does a direct marketer obtain rights just to contact people willy nilly
and consume the same people's resources at no cost to the direct marketer
except in the case of sms and phone calls, their time and communication costs?

In the case of email I have to actually take out rands and cents to receive 
unwanted communication and then I have to add myself to an opt out registry?

The whole design is flawed.

People should rather have a registry where they can add themselves to receive
any and all marketing.

2c

andre

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