Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!rduxb!daw1 From: daw1@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Today's hit list Message-ID: <645@rduxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 09:03:12 EDT Article-I.D.: rduxb.645 Posted: Thu Aug 22 09:03:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:22:37 EDT References: <1222@pucc-k> <4656@hlexa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA Lines: 25 > > Here is today's list of people who should be shot through the lungs: > > 9. Whoever it is that stuffs half a dozen subscription applications > > into every copy of Scientific American (including subscription copies). > All the magazines I subscribe to use this very annoying marketing > practice (and as you imply, also a senseless practice, in the case > of current subscribers). > As soon as I get any magazine, I immediately shake out these > "blow-ins," Here's a few ways to get even: everybody take those suckers (there are usually a least six or so per mag.) and scribble some unreadable mumbo jumbo in the blanks and mail them. If everybody did this havoc would break loose in the subscription departments because they'd be worrying about all the lost subscriptions! As for those postage-paid envelopes that always seem to accompany junk mail offers, stuff 'em full of the other junk mail you got that day and drop it in the mail. The mailer of the junk gets the favor returned. (I always thought making up a bunch of 3" by 8" by 1/4" thick lead plates to mail back in those envelopes would be fun! Imagine the postage due on that load.) Doug Williams AT&T Bell Labs Reading, PA mhuxt!rduxb!daw1