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From: Pat Luther <uop!luther@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: The Card
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wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin) writes:

> I have ... a good
>credit rating, as far as I know [does getting continually pestered
>with "pre-approved" solicitations for various gold cards prove that?].

Nope, sorry, not in the least ...  I also get constantly pestered with
"pre-approved" solicitations for just about every card I've ever heard
of and a lot I haven't. Often, I get these within days of letters from
the same company telling me to pay my past bill or they'll turn me
over to their collection agency.  Seems many of these companies do all
their mailing at about the same time, and don't have a whole lot of
correspondence between their various databases.

I know, something similar is mentioned in Douglas Adam's _Dirk
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_ but these things happen in real
life, too.

				pat