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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
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 09:03:12 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA
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> > 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
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