Post #26,797
2/1/02 12:52:43 AM
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Junkbuster's opt-out program
Go [link|http://www.junkbusters.com/declare.html|here], fill out the forms, and print out everything (plain character printer works best -- courier 10 or 12 point (don't recall which) if not). Mail them.
I did that this summer.
Nobody calls me any more.
That's a lie. I've had two calls. One from Marriott, who wanted to sell me a hotel room, I called back on their penny to get off their list and ask how I'd landed on it (several stays in the past few years), and an automated dialer/message (already illegal) selling me time shares. That's in over six months. For the most part, what I got back were letters from the major services saying "OK, we'll take you off our list for (usually 1-3 years) but will add more time (usually 3-5) if you write back. I took them up on their offer.
I get no junk mail other than the 3rd class circs the US Anthrax Postal Service says they have to deliver. The Junkbuster site includes a "pornographic materials" release you can fill out and turn in to get those stopped as well. Legit. I never bothered but likely will.
Incidentally, one of the worst sources of junk mail lists is USAPS change-of-address forms. The [link|http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressservices/moveupdate/changeaddress.htm|NCOA database] is bought monthly by every major marketing company in existence.
-- Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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Post #26,813
2/1/02 8:24:01 AM
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I tried it, after submitting the form, I get an error
of the page is not found [link|http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/junkdec_1en|http://www.junkbust.../junkdec_1en] d'oh!
Thanks for the link, apparently Junkbusters must be working on the script?
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #27,006
2/2/02 4:57:23 PM
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When will you effing learn to READ, Norm???
Norman, King of the Illiterati: after submitting the form, I get an error "Submitting the form"?!? Where the fuck did Karsten tell you to click "Submit"? Nowhere, that's where -- he didn't. He said: Go here, fill out the forms, and print out everything (plain character printer works best -- courier 10 or 12 point (don't recall which) if not). Mail them. [My emphases - CRC] Notice how he DIDN'T say "E-mail"? What the fuck do you think he meant to use the print-out for? Duh, THAT is what you mail! Yes, I know you can't e-mail (or "submit") that. That's why he *didn't say* "E-mail", but "mail". As in, using the REAL (or "snail", but it sure seems to be quicker than *you*...) mail system -- in your case, the U.S. Postal Service. Ever heard of them? Now please at least *try* to quit being such a fucking moron.
Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #27,109
2/3/02 8:24:07 PM
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I guess I should just put a gun to my head
or drive off a cliff or breath in car exhaust. Good bye cruel world!
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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Post #27,134
2/4/02 2:21:45 AM
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Give it a rest
You should know better than to throw out glib statements like that, here of all places.
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #27,255
2/4/02 4:38:07 PM
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I'll second that.
Don't cry wolf about suicide. Or anything else. Crying wolf and suicide are both bad things. Combining them is even worse.
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
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Post #27,112
2/3/02 8:35:34 PM
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Take another look at the page.
It looks to me like you fill out a bunch'o'stuff, hit the 'I agree' submit button, it will generate some nice customised letter you can (snail)mail away. The bottom of the page (below the submit button) says "Please read your Declaration carefully when it is returned to you". (My emphasis). That text points to the whole 'click submit, get a nice generated letter' thing.
And sure enough clicking the submit button causes the error. Karsten will have the ultimate word on the proper behaviour of the page, I guess.
Norman: If I threatened to kill myself every time somebody called me dumb, I should be dead a hundred times over by now. Put the gun down.
On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #27,290
2/4/02 7:00:40 PM
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Apparently a site error
I thought I saw a mention of it elsewhere on the site, though on the relevant page would be helpful.
The site's most useful for knowing who and where to send things to, and for automating the process. You can still get a [link|http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/optout?from=eg&to=dma|template letter] and run the mods yourself.
To CRC and others -- back off, Norm was right on this, the form doesn't work.
To Norm: killing yourself over a busted webpage is, well, an inappropriate response (killing the programmer who wrote the page might be ever so slightly more healthy an impulse). If this is your default response to any event in life, you've got some very serious issues to address. Please do so soonest.
-- Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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Post #27,294
2/4/02 7:26:44 PM
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So it was a form? OK, I was wrong on the issue...
...this once. Norm's stupid whining, though, is just as annoying even when he happens -- for once in a blue moon -- to be right.
"Back off"? Sorry, perhaps I ought to have picked one of the zillion other similar posts to let it finally get to me...
But that's all.
Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #27,333
2/5/02 2:19:25 AM
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Oh NO!
...must...realign...universe...
...must...restore...ORDER...
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #27,355
2/5/02 9:51:22 AM
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No harm done
you are forgiven.
"Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
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