My old junk mail page is a bit out of date. I’ll start keeping it up to date via my journal entries.
Archive of posts filed under the Advertising category.
Form 1500 records
I’ve been updating my stack of receipts from the Post Office Form 1500 applications I’ve filed. Over 25 companies are now banned from sending me mail. 🙂 Unfortunately the idiots at the local Post Office don’t believe that anyone would not want that stuff, so I am still getting the Advo Shopwise garbage. I just […]
Extra advertising from Internet.com
I really strongly dislike (not quite hate) the way that Internet.com supports their mailing lists. Dear WebReference Update Subscriber, You are receiving this e-mail from WebReference Update and internet.com as part of your subscription to WebReference Update Instead of simply putting in ads with their regular content (which they also do) they also send out […]
Spam (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail)
Spam is the Internet’s equivalent of junk mail. Another term you may see is unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). Regardless of what you call it, it is wrong to send out massive numbers of e-mail in the hopes of selling something. It shifts the cost of you doing business to the recipients of your e-mail, to […]
Spam: Why is it Wrong?
Reason #1 Q: Isn’t spam the same thing as junk mail? You could just delete it. It is very tempting to think of spam and UCE as the same as junk snail mail, when really at BEST it is more like graffitti. The reason you are only getting 4 or 5 a day is determined […]