Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re: Kickstart 2.0 updates Message-ID: <1991Jan17.225746.23522@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 17 Jan 91 22:57:46 GMT References: Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 37 In article dhansen@amiganet.UUCP (Dave Hansen) writes: >In message 17559@cbpvax.commodore.com, Paul Higginbottom writes: >>$Proof of purchase is not necessary since every person who is entitled to >$receive an update is a new user and should have filled out his registration >$card. I am sure Commodore keeps these on computer files somewhere. > >We do file them, but would you believe only about 1 in 5 customers returns >them, ... > >I made the mistake of returning a few of them for the 16 Amigas I've got at >work. Now I am inundated with junk mail from Time/Life telling me how I can >get their books on learning how to use a computer and Columbia record clubs >CD's for free, etc. If you want a database, great. It's my opinion that you >just want to sell another mailing list, which I do not appreciate receiving at >my office. As a minimum, allow the reply card a selection box for those that >do not want that junk mail. > This really isn't fair. I've returned my registration cards and have not gotten put on thousands of mailing lists. There are a thousand ways to get on them, how can you be sure this is the way you got on it? Maybe it was when you got your credit card, or when you returned your TV registration, or maybe your CD player? How can you isolate it? But even if you could, each country has a different Commodore to set those policies. I don't know where you are writing from, maybe that is the difference. > uucp:clout!obdient!amiganet!dhansen >voice: (708)691-4747 -- Ethan "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind... How true that is." -- Dan Quayle, of course. Our beloved Vice President. It's just too easy!