Warp wrote:

>   What I find more puzzling is some of the answers to that blog entry.
> 
>   Some people seem to think that receiving unsolicited junk mail is *normal*,
> and that you should simply live with it. After all, it's not all that much
> of a nuisance, isn't it? They seem to think that if someone actually does
> something to enforce his legal rights to not to receive unsolicited junk
> mail, he is being a prick.
> 
>   IMO companies should be put in their places. Invading people's privacy,
> no matter how lightly, without their consent is never acceptable.

I'm with you on this one...

I've actually been thinking about charging companies for the time I have 
to waste securely destroying the "HERE IS YOUR PRIORITY LOAN 
APPLICATION!" forms they keep sending me with my personal data 
preprinted on them. If I were to just throw these in the bin, no doubt 
some evil person could use them to steal my identity. So I have to spend 
time and effort destroying them properly.

Now if *I* were to inconvinience *them* in such a manner, surely they 
would charge me for their time? But I somehow suspect if I tried to 
invoice them for *my* wasted time, I wouldn't actually see any money...



By the way... I have no idea if this is true or not. It probably isn't. 
But it's very amusing anyway... The story goes that some guy took all 
the prepaid form return envelopes he'd been sent, filled them all with 
penny coins (nearly worthless, but quite heavy) and mailed them back. 
The advertisers were charged additional postage due to the heavy items. 
When they complained, the guy said he had mailed the money to them by 
mistake, AND DEMANDED THEY RETURN THE FUNDS! So the companies had to 
expend more money posting cheques to him.

Like I said, probably completely ficticious, but very amusing none the 
less... ;-)

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