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z
getting even
June 18, 2001 06:17PM
<HTML>Subject: Fwd: get even
>When you get those pre-approved letters in the mail for everything from >credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that,
> most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right?
> Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in >these >cool little envelopes!

> Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express, or a >pizza >coupon to Citibank. > If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their >application back! Just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
Heck, you can send it back empty if you want to just to keep 'em
>guessing! > Let's turn this into a chain letter! Eventually, the banks and > credit card companies will begin getting all their junk mail back.

Let's let them know what it's like to get junk > mail, and best of all... THEY'RE paying for it! Twice!
>
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they
say e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they
need to increase postage again! > Send this to a friend or two or three...or fifty....
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honoria
Re: getting even
June 18, 2001 08:42PM
<HTML>I like getting junk mail because often the envelopes are decorated with lush advertising images or brightly abstracted logos and, the envelopes often have windows. I really enjoy collaging, painting, stamping, on top of the advertising envelopes and stuffing parts of my interior artwork so that it will display in the envelope window. My favorite junk mailings are Join the Marines. The envelopes have charging Marines on the front and back. I reuse most of my junk mail envelopes. I have a file folder for envelopes. I dump the advertising contents in the trash and save the envelopes but I like the idea of sending the contents of the junk mailers to each other. Pretty funny. I'd decorate them though with a rubber stamp or two. I just couldn't resist.</HTML>
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rae's of sun
Re: getting even
June 19, 2001 02:21AM
<HTML>I've been returning my junk mail to the sender for years. I usually include my address with a "Do not send any more junk mail" note. If they continue, I'll send banana peels or other things. My brother attached a brick to his. They really got the message then, imagine the postage they had to pay!

Rae's of Sun
40 El Rancho Drive
Pleasant HIll, Ca 94523

Please - no junk mail only mail art!!</HTML>
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antitext
Re: getting even
June 21, 2001 03:51PM
<HTML>
there was an interesting thread on this topic a while back at slashdot.
<A HREF="[www.slashdot.org];

i personally like to draw pictures on the contents and add a couple of rubber stamps to the outside of the envelope and then send the envelope back on it's way.

-e


antitext industries
19 emerson st
new haven ct 06515-2809</HTML>
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bb
return unwanted mail without costs
June 23, 2001 02:48PM
<HTML>Returning unwanted mail without costs. I am doing that for decades already. Receieve that brochure of a bank you didn/t want. Just stick it in that free answering-envelope and return it. Teach them they should not send out that unwanted advertising.</HTML>
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jonny
Re: return unwanted mail without costs
June 24, 2001 08:58PM
<HTML>Yes... Good idea. But don't fergit ta load that free postage paid envelope with lots and lots and lots of heavy stuff and junk. They have to pay for it on the other end!</HTML>
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bb
Re: return unwanted mail without costs
June 25, 2001 06:37PM
<HTML>yip</HTML>
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Merlin
Re: return unwanted mail without costs
June 25, 2001 11:05PM
<HTML>yes - it is just using systems
instead of systems,
against systems
effectively.

Merlin</HTML>
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Merlin
Re: getting even
June 23, 2001 12:32AM
<HTML>You just found spontaneous how to handle it -

I absolutely agree with!

- impressed about your adding the -
join the mareens - envelopes,

I once had been ought to join German Army-
I did not want... fighted through it learned to
handel weapons and.... but...


doing this in Germoney it is still a Risk ...
what you are doing....


souls are growing at down under first.

Merlin</HTML>
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M
Re: getting even
June 22, 2001 10:35PM
<HTML>keep your spamm out or U will become deletet very fast not
ownly here.

not yours
M.</HTML>
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Merlin
Re: getting even /no illegal chain letters here!
June 25, 2001 11:16PM
<HTML>Chainletters are illegal in snailmail and in e-mail too.
Today you send one message to spread something about
.... tomorrow one virus warning (HOAX) telling to spread
it - this can kill complete networks for a while.

Do not do this!
Delete all begging for forwarding to hundreds of friends...

Also in mailart egroups such hoaxes arised...

Sending chainletters out for mailart is ok and not illegal,
?cause the sense is clear and readable - art to spread,
a game or not for free.

Anything other could lead to jail in some countries/states
and... ... ...

Also, outside of mailart I will not accept any chainletters
then their spreaders.

Last weeks I had the problem with such an email hoax -
telling people to delete infected files, one of my working-
group did in panic --- and I had to restore the system .....

# chain letters in art are tolerated, in e-mail they will become
deleted, even if such an item - it was not really a chainletter,
but asking for..... - will become deleted here.

Your

Merlin</HTML>
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