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From: smith@NCoast.ORG (Phil Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.013018.123@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 6 Apr 91 01:30:18 GMT
References: <1991Apr01.051101.3386@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr1.075621.6297@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <19142@rpp386.cactus.org>
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As quoted from <19142@rpp386.cactus.org> by jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II):
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| In article <1991Apr1.075621.6297@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> pierrer@pike.ee.mcgill.ca (Pierre Racz) writes:
| Or with junk snail-mail, take the goodies they sent you and put them in
| their business reply envelope and mail them back.  I accumulate stuff
| from other junk-mailers and send it to other junk-mailers from time to
| time as well.  Keeps them informed ;-)
| -- 
Works for me. But I wish it would work a little better.

To make a short story long. Long, long time ago I bought something
with a bank loan. At some point in time the bank sold the loan to
a finance company. Can't remember if I still sent the payments to 
the bank or had to send them to the finance company. Since then 
several times a year I get junk mail from the finance company
soliciting me to take a personal loan. This has continued for 
what seems like hundreds of years.

I used to remove any traces of my name and send the stuff back
to them in their business reply envelope. The past few years
I have starting sending everything back to them (unsigned of course)
so they would know who it was coming back from. So far they haven't
taken the hint that they should remove me from their mailing list.