"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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Is anyone besides me getting a spam from Korea which you can't get rid of
it? snip It
makes me wonder aloud why I didn't (and now don't) simply send them to the
deleted items file.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm about up to my ears with junk mail

For junk mail I keep all letters with a postage-paid return envelope. I
accumulate as much junk mail as I can stuff into the envelope as well as
junk faxes and send it back to them. Years ago, I would tape the letter to
a brick, but the post office will no longer accept anything attached to such
envelopes. Remember, they only pay postage when you return the envelope. I
used to carefully hide my name and stuff, or clip out the part of the letter
with my name on it -- but I found a better way. Send the form back with a
big red thing on it saying "REFUSED" and be sure to black out any signature
areas. Make sure you name and address is on the form. I found that by
doing this, I get my name off the mailing list in one hell of a hurry. It
has really cut down on the junk mail (with return envelopes) that I get.

and spam.

That's the tough one. The worst recently, has been all those bogus
"Microsoft Security" notices and undelivered mail notices (144K long,
typically). I go to my ISP web site and delete all them without opening or
downloading, but it still takes time. This has gotten so bad that I will
probably change my email address, my ISP, and start using an antiSPAM insert
like so may people do -- or
something. I assume that all you guys know never to click on the "click
here to remove your name from this list" -- that might get you off that SPAM
list, but it confirms that they hit a valid address and they sell that one
to all the other SPAMers.

So far as the phone goes, I no longer answer it. We screen the
calls with a message on our answering machine that tells friends to
identify
themselves, and for solicitors to hang up, that we do not accept calls
from
solicitors.

In Pennsylvania, we have a "Do Not Call" list which went into effect about a
year ago. Works great. I suppose that's the reason the telemarketers
pushed their case to kill the national telemarketing bill up to a
soft-headed judge -- he's got what he deserves -- thousands of telephone
calls (at dinnertime) from irate citizens. The telemarketers hope to push
it all the way up to the supreme court and to thereby invalidate the working
laws, such as Pennsylvania's. Before the PA law went into effect, here's
what I found was effective:

1. Just let them rattle on and on and on. If I'm at my desk and I get a
telemarketing call, I just put them on speaker phone and let them talk.
Eventually, they get to the point where they want a response -- the get
really ****ed off when you have wasted their time.

2. If I need to use the phone I get their name and telephone number and
then say "Congratulations -- you have called someone on the PA Do-Not-Call
list. You are subject to a $1,000 fine for this call of which I will get
$150. Thank you again for calling. "

I feel sorry for the (typically poor and/or desperate) people who
try to make a living making such calls. But maybe this will help to dry up
the potential employee pool, drive up the wages, and make telemarketing
unprofitable -- much better than more laws that clever lawyers can find a
way around.






At what point will the lawmakers pull their heads out of their asses?

Comments?

Harold