Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!obrien From: obrien@randvax.ARPA (Michael O'Brien) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Personal, Confidential, Open at Once! Message-ID: <1710@randvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 22:01:16 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1710 Posted: Tue Feb 21 22:01:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 01:06:03 EST References: <210@heurikon.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 9 In reply to the fellow asking how to get back at obnoxious organizations who send you junk with post-paid reply envelopes, the best technique I ever heard was invented by a wine conoisseur who saved all the lead foil from his wine bottles, and sent that back. He managed to generate some amazingly heavy replies. He regarded it (in the political arena at least) as a way of making a negative contribution to a campaign. However, the more he sent back, the more lists he got on. They apparently feel that a response is a response. He was finally sent a membership card for the National Committee of the political party whose coffers he'd been raiding...