very confusing.

Joe Greco jgreco at ns.sol.net
Thu Jun 14 01:01:57 UTC 2012


> A trick to do on mail (USPS) spammers is take the prepaid mailing =
> envelope they often include and tape it to a brick wrapped in brown =
> paper and drop it off at the post office. They have to pay the shipping. =
> If enough people do it, they go out of business.

That's simply false; local postmasters have had the discretion to discard
your bricks for years, AND THEY DO.

> In this case, do anything you can to waste his time and resources. Call =
> up and act interested in his services and have them go through their =
> sales pitch as many times as you can.  Ask for them to mail you =
> literature. Have them write up proposals and quotes. Then when the last =
> step left is to actually commit to their service tell them you were just =
> pulling their chain, and why. If you eat up enough of their time they =
> end up attending to too few real paying customers and they go out of =
> business.

But that, on the other hand ...

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.




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