Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-opus.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!gcc-opus!alien From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Junk Mail Message-ID: <156@gcc-opus.ARPA> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 15:40:51 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.156 Posted: Wed Dec 5 15:40:51 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:29:18 EST References: <2104@stolaf.UUCP> <71@tekchips.UUCP> <1887@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman) Lines: 10 Summary: >Or, do what my mother used to do. Send the post-paid envelopes with nothing >in them, and the cards with no info on them. When I was a kid, my friends >and I used to put non-sensical names and addresses on them. I have a friend who does considerably worse things than that. He has a tendancy to send empty (but not clean) cat food tins back in the reply envelopes, or anything else that hit his fancy (of course, no return address). The worst thing I heard of, was he took a return mail card, tied it to an old tire (car tire), and left it leaning on a mailbox. The postman took it.