From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:45:56 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Spamming (Good or Bad?)
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At 05:28 PM 8/21/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

>(By the way, some of you younger folks may not remember all the creative
>ways people used to have to deal with unwanted junk mail. For "return
>postage provided" replies, they would often attach the return forms to
>large packages of stuff (sometimes even organic, stinky stuff) and let the
>junk mailer eat the postage charges at his end. Or they'd fill out the "get
>free stuff" forms with the addresses of local officials.)

Return reply envelopes can be alot of fun.  

In "A Handful of Zen" by Camden Benares (a book on Discordian Zen) he
suggests collecting them.  When you have something sufficiently weird for a
mass mailing, you just fill a bunch of them and drop them in the local
public posting bin.

An interesting way to releave the daily stress...
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