Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02610; Mon, 29 Apr 96 03:15:18 EDT Received: from aries.Colorado.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18286; Mon, 29 Apr 96 03:15:17 EDT Received: from aries.colorado.edu by aries.colorado.edu (PMDF V4.2-13 #12962) id <01I43SZTNVGQ8WXWZJ@aries.colorado.edu>; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 07:14:59 GMT Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 07:14:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! Subject: opting out To: David.Bird@qmgate.trw.com, Drbforman@aol.com, phunque@znet.com, BosleyJ@ore.psb.bls.gov, hy5@netcom.com, Sidney_Sun@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov, MEZZACAP@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu, vijay@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk, mwm@cs.cmu.edu, johnsonr@hoshi.colorado.edu, abennett@MIT.EDU, rnswamy@sashimi.colorado.edu, GORMAN@rascal.med.harvard.edu, Seadog@displaytech.com, searcy@turing.colorado.edu, chesleyb@sgate.com, holden@tad.Colorado.EDU, mitch@ari.net, Randy.C.Cassingham@jpl.nasa.gov, Willy_Hinds@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov, cate3@netcom.com, 0070120@CCMAIL.EMIS.HAC.COM, langer@cam.nist.gov, c.k.walker@larc.nasa.gov, mim@nbn.com, arch1m@jetson.uh.edu Message-Id: <01I43SZTNVGS8WXWZJ@aries.colorado.edu> X-Vms-To: DB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from boulder.Colorado.EDU (boulder) by aries.colorado.edu (PMDF V4.2-13 #12962) id <01I3YZ7238RK8WXGO7@aries.colorado.edu>; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 20:18:38 GMT Received: from carrara.bos.marble.com (carrara.bos.marble.com [140.186.72.1]) by boulder.Colorado.EDU (8.6.13/8.6.12/UnixOps) with SMTP id OAA26374 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:18:31 -0600 Received: from vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU by carrara.bos.marble.com with SMTP id AA09440 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:17:03 -0400 Received: from mongoose.bostic.com (bostic@mongoose.BSDI.COM [205.230.230.129]) by vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.7.Beta.2/8.7.Beta.2) with ESMTP id NAA12763 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bostic@localhost) by mongoose.bostic.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id QAA13691 for dnlist@vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:05:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:05:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Bostic Subject: Want to Opt Out of Direct Marketing? To: /dev/null@mongoose.bostic.com Message-id: <199604252005.QAA13691@mongoose.bostic.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT From: Peter Langston From: "Jack D. Doyle" How to Opt Out of Direct Marketing Lists To opt out of many [Snail] Mailing Lists, write a letter giving your complete name, name variations and mailing address to: Mail Preference Service Direct Marketing Association P.O. Box 9008 Farmingdale, NY 11735; and TRW Consumer Opt Out TRW Target Marketing Services 701 TRW Parkway Allen, TX 75002. To remove your name from many telephone solicitation lists, send your complete name, address and phone number with area code to: Telephone Preference Service Direct Marketing Association P.O. Box 9014 Farmingdale, NY 11735; and TRW Consumer Opt Out TRW Target Marketing Services 701 TRW Parkway Allen, TX 75002. [These really do work. But you should consider that, although you can get removed from mailing lists such as the one that sends big bundles of fliers accompanied by a card that has your address on one side and the photo of a missing child on the other, all that really does is keep you from getting the address card. In theory that should also keep you from getting the fliers, but the reality is that your mail carrier is giving a bundle of fliers to every address on her/his route and assumes there will be an address card in with your other mail. So you have to talk to the mail carrier and let him/her know that you don't get those things. I have some friends who also put a little note by their mailbox to remind the carrier (handy when carriers change or are out sick). I found that just talking to my carrier was enough (so far)... -psl]