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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:08:26 GMT
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: UPS Digital Clipboards
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.116.5@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 116, Message 5 of 11
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- Ed Ravin <eravin@panix.com> writes:
-
- >I do this for most new groups that I join, just to see how far and wide
- >they will scatter my name. For example, the amount of mail I receive
- >from other groups when I joined the Sierra Club is frightening -- fortunately,
- >the stream of mail withered away when I renewed and scribbled "STOP SHARING
- >MY NAME WITH OTHER MAILERS" on the renewal form.
-
-
- I usually get a brick, wrap it in brown paper, and glue the envelope I get
- from other groups on top of the brick, writing on the envelope 'Delivery
- Refused'. Since the sending company must then pay the extra postage on the
- brick, I seldom get a followup from a company, although one company was stupid
- enough to send me two more notices, so on the third (total) notice from them,
- I wrapped up about four bricks in a small box and glued the envelope on the
- top of this box. I never got another notice from this company!
-
- allen
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