Tag Archives: DMA

More on the DMAchoice.org debacle

My blog postings about the DMA (initial and followup) got picked up at The Consumerist and got over 5,200 views, which is a respectable take, but not nearly as good as when Continental lost my daughter :-).  You will also find on The Consumerist a rebuttal from the DMA which doesn’t actually respond substantively to… Read More »

DMA’s Mail Preference Service: Once a fraud, always a fraud

Since 1971, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has offered a service called the Mail Preference Service (MPS).  The alleged purpose of the MPS is to allow consumers to register which kinds of direct marketing mail they want, or to opt out completely.  DMA members are then supposed to scrub their mailing lists against the MPS… Read More »