Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:957 misc.consumers:25244 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!jester!eliot From: eliot@jester.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,misc.consumers Subject: Re: How to get out of the Lotus database Message-ID: <1990Dec13.150402.7625@dg-rtp.dg.com> Date: 13 Dec 90 15:04:02 GMT References: <3089@litchi.bbn.com> Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration) Reply-To: eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 32 In article , emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: |> In article <3089@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: |> |> To get your name off the Lotus marketplace database, call |> 1-800-343-5414 |> |> After hours, this yields a recording, which is also a voice mail (Ah! You mean "after business hours". I thought you means "after waiting for hours") I got through to a very polite human in about 15 seconds. She also gave me the following places to write to, to arrange to get less junk mail: Direct Marketing Association Mail Preference Service P.O. Box 3861 New York, NY 10163-3861 (she mentioned that writing to these folks would result in your name being taken off the Lotus thing) Also: Equifax Options P.O. Box 740123 Atlanta, Georgia 30374-0123 (she said "this is where we get our information") -- Topher Eliot Data General Corporation eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com 62 T. W. Alexander Drive {backbone}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!eliot Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (919) 248-6371 Obviously, I speak for myself, not for DG.