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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Idea to help curb unwanted junk mail
Message-ID: <4534.28292e48@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 9 May 91 16:11:03 GMT
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In article <1991May05.025110.8941@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
> 	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. 

Those informational mailings from your congresscritter that arrive
during the months before elections are addressed to "Postal Patron".

The US Postal Service (they changed their name some years ago) sells
several services that deliver mail without even addresses on it.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com