Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!uunet!pcserver2!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Idea to help curb unwanted junk mail Message-ID: <1991May05.025110.8941@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 5 May 91 02:51:10 GMT References: <1991Apr23.133156.5822@com50.c2s.mn.org> Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 13 I don't know if this will work, but I have an idea. The US Post Office should provide a service to people who don't want junk mail. These people will sign up and the post office will not deliver mail which does not have their name on it. Names such as "The Folks at" or "Postal Customer" or "Resident" will not be delivered. If someone WANTS this mail, they don't have to ask for the service. The Post Office would then do both the people and the junk-mailers a service. The people who don't want the mail won't be bothered, and the junk-mailers won't have to waste money on postage for people who won't read the junk mail anyway. -- The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM