Re: Spammer motives

From: Peter James (nospam_at_petefjames.clara.co.uk)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:09:02 +0000

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:42:25 +0000, Gladys Pump
<noway.jose@jose.noway.zap> wrote:

>I'm spammed monthly through my front door with some 'Bettaware' or 'Kleneze'
>catalogue crap. I've never bought a single thing. A lot of the time, I just
>bin them, which apparently costs them money. :)
Like you I'm spammed on almost a daily basis with unrequested offers
of loans, mortgages, credit cards etc, etc. So, my technique is
simplicity itself. Reply to all of them. They always include a self
addressed envelope in the hope of a positive reply. So I return the
junk mail from company number one to company number two with a small
statement to the effect that as they were so kind as to send me
unwanted mail, I thought I would return the compliment. It works a
treat. Readers Digest have given up on me, and some of the banks are
beginning to get the message. The only way is to increase their
costs, and one of the best ways is by increasing their mail costings.
If we all did this, I swear we could end junk mailing overnight. 

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Peter James
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