Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Ron Heiby Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Sierra Club Considered Harmful! Message-ID: <11882@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 23:46:18 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 628, Message 12 of 14 This seems to be getting off the topic, but I wanted to reply to Patrick's comments. My wife joined (in *my* name) the Sierra club about a year ago. Expecting a call on my data/answering-machine line that I actually wanted to take, I picked up an incoming call and it was a Sierra telemarketer asking what I wanted to "pledge" for renewing my membership. She finally agreed to accept a "null" pledge as I kept insisting that it was my wife who made those decisions. When I asked her about it later, she told me that she'd decided not to send them any more money as she felt that her entire initial donation had gone to pay for mailings asking for more donations. She wants to donate to a similar organization that A) does good work, and B) sends members (at most) a couple of low cost newsletters a year to let them know what their money's going for. I don't disagree! Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod