NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/motss/58180

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From: [e-mail] (Andrew C. Crowell)
Subject: Re: Fighting fundies
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Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:17:31 GMT
Keywords: fundamentalists, struggle, discrimination
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Real Life?!?! HA!!) writes:
>
>Another idea:  Why not try to drain the fundies' pocketbooks a little bit each
>day on our own?  A few months ago, someone mentioned sending lead weights to
>them through business reply mail?  What about sending lots of letters, without
>return address, postage due?  How about calling their 1-800 numbers (Do they
>have any?) incessantly, thus a.driving up their phone bills(maybe) and b.tying
>up their lines and operators' time?

This reminds me of a story in RE/Search's "Pranks" issue recounted by Jello
Biafra, about what he does with "postage paid" reply cards sent to him by
conservative orgs. He attaches them securely to things like cinder blocks,
large, heavy metal objects, etc, and mails them. Due to the nature of "postage
paid" mail, the US Postal Service _has_ to deliver these clunkers, and the
organization who receives them _does_ get billed for these massively heavy
(and expensive) parcels. Anyone feel like getting on CFV's mailing list so
we can send 'em some building materials, gang? :)

D.A.C. Crowell
Computer Music Project/School of Music
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
([e-mail])