Junk mail: printed and otherwise

[Kenton Bird <kbird@uidaho.edu>]

Visionaries:
1. In the past two months, I've received more than two dozen
solicitations from credit card companies, offering my
gold/platinum/plutonium Visas and MasterCards.  I regularly write to the
Direct Mail Associations asking to be removed from mailing lists, but
still the junk keeps coming.  Are others having this problem?  Any
suggestions on how to stem the paper flow?

2. Today, I have received four unsolicited "get rich quick" spam
messages -- including one from Pakistan and one from Yugoslavia?  Has
some address-retrieving software scanned the 2020 subscriber list on the
web and condemned me to receive endless notices of chain letters?
Help!   I've replied to the message demanding to be removed from the
mailing list, but two replies came back as undeliverable.  What other
recourse do we have to fend off this electronic onslaught?

thanks,
Kenton