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From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Personal, Confidential, Open at Once!
Message-ID: <210@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 14:35:15 EST
Article-I.D.: heurikon.210
Posted: Sat Feb 11 14:35:15 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 05:24:00 EST
Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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I'm sick and tired of all that junk mail which has the words
"PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL" noted on it when all it is is just
some offer to spend money.  "Personal and Confidential" should
be reserved for mail which is truly intended for one's eyes only.

Then there's the mail marked "IMPORTANT: OPEN AT ONCE" which
usually contains a magazine or sweepstakes offer to which I'm
given three months to respond.

Those con artists must figure that the only way to get to me
is to use gimmicks like that.  They figure I've got my secretary 
tossing my junk mail before it even reaches me.  Well, they're
right!  And first priority for trashing is now given to those
P&C and OAO slogans.  I look at methods such as this as an insult
and an invasion of my privacy.  And as such, I throw the cr*p
away without opening it.  My only fear is that someday I may
throw out a really important letter.  Sometimes, if my deflector
shields are down and one of those things *does* manage to get
through, I fill the reply envelope with lots of heavy paper and
return it.  (Somehow, I don't think that bothers them.)

Does anybody know any nifty retaliation techniques?  Please post.
-- 
/"""\	Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI
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