Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxh!hlexa!hsf From: hsf@hlexa.UUCP (Henry Friedman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Today's hit list Message-ID: <4656@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 17:57:32 EDT Article-I.D.: hlexa.4656 Posted: Tue Aug 20 17:57:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:15:21 EDT References: <1222@pucc-k> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 18 > 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). .... > Rich Kulawiec rsk@{pur-ee,purdue}.uucp, rsk@purdue-asc.csnet 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," (as I heard they were called, from the machinery that inserts them). Then, as I read the magazines, I also savagely rip out and crumble the invariable additional bound-in subscription offers, which make it harder to read the text. Henry Friedman