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To: Pern
I hear you, whenever I come across a subscription site, I use 'annoying' as the username and password. It usually works.

And I can't deny the satisfaction in that. I've got a friend who drops those "no postage necessary" magazine suubscription postcards into mailboxes with no info on them.




13 posted on 12/25/2002 9:53:51 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
That's correct. Tis all one has to do.

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14 posted on 12/25/2002 9:55:14 AM PST by rdb3
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To: Sabertooth
And I can't deny the satisfaction in that. I've got a friend who drops those "no postage necessary" magazine suubscription postcards into mailboxes with no info on them.

Which get immediately tossed into the trash at the very same post office where your friend mails them. And if they're not caught then, they'll be thrown out at the destination, and the magazine will not have to pay one cent for them. The only people that get screwed are the taxpayers, who end up paying increased rates from all the gas and manpower used to transport X tons of useless paper every year.

Postal regulations are very clear on this: Obvious use of business reply mail for harassment of the business is thrown out the moment it's caught by any postal employee. Tell your friend to stop wasting his time.

23 posted on 12/25/2002 10:22:59 AM PST by Timesink
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To: Sabertooth
I hear you, whenever I come across a subscription site, I use 'annoying' as the username and password. It usually works.

And I can't deny the satisfaction in that. I've got a friend who drops those "no postage necessary" magazine suubscription postcards into mailboxes with no info on them.

I return all these "You are approved for this credit card" envelopes, but put inside the papers with no personal information (actual application goes to garbage), and first rip them aroung the margins.

48 posted on 12/25/2002 11:31:40 AM PST by ConvictHitlery
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To: Sabertooth
I knew a couple of guys who had a run-in with their high-school teacher. They spent every study-hall hour subscribing to magazines, and ordering anything and everything in the teachers name. They guessed they had subscribed him to about five to ten thousand magazines by the end of the school year.
67 posted on 12/25/2002 5:00:47 PM PST by gitmo
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