vision2020
Re: Junk mail: printed and otherwise
At 03:30 PM 12/04/2000 -0800, Kenton Bird wrote:
>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?
I once called a credit card company and complained that I had received two
mailings within two days. They offered to take me off their mailing list
(as I think they are required to on request). I took them up on it. Those
solicitations often come with toll-free numbers, so take advantage of
them. Or you can use their post-paid envelope to request removal.
>2. Today, I have received four unsolicited "get rich quick" spam
>messages -- including one from Pakistan and one from Yugoslavia? 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?
They often use false return addresses. Unsolicited email is not ethical,
so don't expect such people to be ethical. They are unlikely to oblige
your requests to remove your address from their database. The best thing
to do is to ignore them.
Bob Hoffmann
846 Mabelle St.
Moscow, ID 83843 USA
Phone: (208) 883-0642
Fax: (877) 495-2279
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