From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!bj
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Green Christmas
Article-I.D.: yale-com.398
Posted: Mon Nov 29 19:48:01 1982
Received: Tue Nov 30 03:35:30 1982
References: ihuxt.135

    Bob Rosin, your wife should be commended on sending promotional
    material to people who want to be on her mailing list. It would
    be so much nicer if all merchants were this way!

I don't see much of a difference between merchants sending adds to people
on a mailing list and most forms of advertisement.  While merchants are
to blame for the quality of advertisements, they should not be blamed
for the ads being there - they are all ads you *want* to see.

If you don't like ads on TV or radio, stick to PBS.  They do have "fund
    drives" which replace ads, but they could be eliminated if enough
    people would send them money without it being requested.  If there
    was a demand for commercial free stations, they would exist.
If you don't like ads in newspapers or magazines, let the publishers
    know.  Again, if there was a demand they would exist - but they
    would cost several times the current price.  Are you ready to
    pay $5.00 a day for the NYT without any ads?
Whenever you give your address to anybody, tell them not to distribute it.
    This will eliminate the junk mail problem.

All forms of advertisement I can think of (except billboards) can be
avoided by avoiding the medium they come in.  If you must have that
medium, don't complain - either ignore the ads or find an alternate
way to pay the cost of putting on the show or printing the paper.
					B.J.
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