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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.activism,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: "advertising is not evil"
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Date: 30 Jan 91 22:16:43 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.210008.6535@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
}If you want to conserve paper, junk mail is actually a plus.   When you
}consider that the alternative to a 10,000 piece junk mailing is an ad in
}a 500,000 circulation magazine...

}But for those concerned about wasting paper, the better the targeting of
}the junk mail, the less paper used.

The Los Angeles Times claims to be printed on 80% recycled paper stock.
Further, 100% of the daily edition and about 90% of the Sunday edition is
recyclable itself.

None of the junkmail I receive daily claims to be printed on recycled
stock.  Most of it can't be recycled because of treated paper or other
impurities.  Further, most of it isn't targeted beyond bulk delivery to a
block of addresses.

I'd rather the junk mailers bought space in the Times than filled my
mailbox with useless trash.

-- 
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