Frank and Ernest by Thaves for April 05, 2023

That does not surprise me. I can tell who has sold my address by the middle initial used. And, not happy about it.

if they’re selling MY name, shouldn’t I be earning royalties?

Thanks (?) for your “support” (?)

The support group must be run by a tech company. It sounds like their style.

At the postal plant I work at, we get plenty of mailers, circulars, and other junk returned by angry customers who write angry notices on the returned item demanding they get taken off the mailing list, which by the way, may have been sold by the local DMV. What our customers don’t know is most of the junk is either “standard mail” or “non-profit”, often with no return address. It then winds up as “dead mail”, which is turned into waste, and the poor folks who wrote the angry messages will still find this stuff in their mailbox. We employees always get a big laugh at some of those angry messages, often written by magic markers, and in huge handwriting.

Like pretty much every other site on the internet.

and Ernie went flying out the door………….>

Can you say “Conflict of Interest?” I knew you could… ☺

OK, thanks to whomever did today’s comic, very funny, very clever and absolutely true…

Check out spamgourmet, a service that lets you create temporary e-addresses that forward to your real address a specified number of times and then stop forever.

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If a commodity is “free”, you’re the commodity being sold

Twenty years ago I joined the DMA “Do Not Mail List”—membership cost $1.00 and I only have to renew every 10 years. I happily do not receive junk mail. Also in California we have strict privacy laws and all you have to do is check all the boxes “No, Do not share my information with third party marketers, etc.”

I do database development for a small non-profit that hosts about half a dozen conferences a year. Each one attracts somewhere around 50-100 people. After each conference is over, they distribute a roster of participants to everybody who attended, on the theory that those are the very people who share that interest and they might want to keep in touch with each other. But even in this case, the reg forms I’ve generated for the org contain “DO NOT SHARE” options available to each person for name, address, eddress, or phone number, each specifically, or “anything” in general.

I thought it was my life insurance company. but now they are saying it’s the Indiana BMV. :-(

Actually, they make their money from the gift shop