coulter@hplabsc.UUCP (Michael Coulter) (01/22/86)
I recently sent a letter to Byte magazine asking them not to make my name and address available to third parties. They sent back a wonderful reply saying that they would comply and telling me about an organization which can get your name OFF of at least some mailing lists. An excerpt from the letter is reproduced below. -- Michael Coulter ...ucbvax!hplabs!coulter ... write to the Direct Mail Marketing Association, 6 E. 43rd St., New York, NY 10017, and ask that your name and address be included in their "do not pander" file. This is a computer listing of people who specifically do not wish to receive advertising in the mail. It is updated quarterly, and supplied to most major computer services which prepare labels for large promotional mailings. There it is matched to any possible occurrences of your name on rented lists and, to the best of the computer's ability, deleted from the labels generated. Therefore, when writing to the DMMA, include as many possible versions (misspellings, etc.) of your name and address as you can think of, to help the computer do its matching job.