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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: "Un-Mail"
Message-ID: <672@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 12:33:21 EST
Article-I.D.: tymix.672
Posted: Wed Feb 26 12:33:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 03:01:27 EST
References: <1465@gitpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
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Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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Keywords: on box, in yard

In article <1465@gitpyr.UUCP> kpk@gitpyr.UUCP writes:
>I live in a high-density residential neighborhood.  This
>makes me a target of much "un-mail" such as sales
>brochures, sample newspapers, local phone books, etc.
>
>The items are frequently rubber-banded to the side of my
>mailbox (to avoid conflicts with the P.O.) or are placed
>in plastic bags and thrown in my front yard (and every other
>front yard for miles).  
>
>My question is this: How can this un-mail be effectively
>controlled?  How is this practice different from simple
>littering in the eyes of the law? 
>
And what can one do about the jokers who walk onto the company
parking lot and place their leaflets under the windshield wipers
of every car on the lot?
-- 
Herb Kanner
McDonnell Douglas (TYMNET)
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