Getting on a mailing or calling list is easy. Any consumer who has sorted through junk mail or received a soliciting telephone call knows that. But how about getting your name off that list? That's more difficult - and that's reason enough for state lawmakers to listen to state Attorney General Robert Abrams' plea for sorely need state regulations.
The tangled web of name lists - who compiles them, who provides information for them and who sells them - was detailed in this week's Sunday Times Union by our consumer writer, Irene Gardner Keeney. Yet as she points out, if someone at a bank that once issued her a credit card hadn't goofed, she might never have known how …
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