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- From: jjh00@outs.ccc.amdahl.com (Joel J. Hanes)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Junk mail
- Message-ID: <f4mU02e81af201@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:47:18 GMT
- References: <92202.095927MEK104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
- Reply-To: jjh00@OUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Joel J. Hanes)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- Lines: 30
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- MEK104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >
- >Regarding your explanation, as to how Reagan affected the volume of junk
- >mail, I stated that I don't doubt its value. Nevertheless,
- >
- ><JMC.92Jul15175029@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> John McCarthy Writes:
- >
- >>I think Paul Barton-Davis is mistaken in saying that every class of mail
- >>paid for itself before Reagan. I remember the issue of subsidized junk
- >>mail from at least the 1960s. ...
- >
- >So I guess your reply to my original question (How did Reagan increase junk
- >mail) may not be as credible as you would have me believe.
-
- The information about the accounting changes affecting junk
- mail costs and mailing list maintenance by the US Postal
- Service come originally from a posting by Cameron Spitzer.
-
- * Mr. Spitzer cites a his own conversation with a former
- Postmaster-General as the ultimate source of this
- information
-
- * Prof. McCarthy cites his own vague recollections of
- junk mail costs having been an issue for years.
-
- I know which source I find more credible.
-
-
- ---
- Joel Hanes
-