Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!Firewall!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Subject: Re: Idea to help curb unwanted junk mail Message-ID: <1991May14.015238.27707@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL References: <1991May05.025110.8941@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <4534.28292e48@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 91 01:52:38 GMT Lines: 25 In article <4534.28292e48@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >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 I know this. I want a NEW item. (I don't care to read what my congressperson says anyway, even the replies to my letters with my address and name on them are form letters.) -- The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM