Ack, Rl Spam

lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Laughs on Me</div> This is the big "mock lolfighter's misery"-thread. I moved to Horsens, a medium-sized (in the danish sense of the word) town in Jylland, last sunday. That doesn't mean anything to you of course. Anyways, what I wasn't prepared for was <b>teh spammeh</b>. I don't yet have proper internet access (I'm sitting in the college's computer lab right now), so at least I'm safe from all the e-junkmail I usually recieve. But hear this: I recieve more REAL junkmail than I ever got electronically! I was up here some weeks ago, and the mailbox was nearly empty (I suspect the former owner had emptied it recently). When I got back here last sunday, the mailbox was literally <b>clogged</b>. I had to pull heavily on a few of the ads (some of them as thick as a magazine) to get them out. How the mail carrier got all that stuff in there, I don't know. The daily average is now four glossy catalogues. How many trees have been felled to fill my little steel (thank God it's made of relatively heavy steel, a thinner mailbox would have popped) mailbox with glossy paper that I don't want? I don't even HAVE a fireplace, what are all these catalogues for? Thank God the recycling container is only a few steps away from my front door.
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Previous tenant = sending out as much info to catalogue companies as he could before he high-tailed it outta there
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  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Infinitum+Aug 28 2003, 02:55 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Aug 28 2003, 02:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Previous tenant = sending out as much info to catalogue companies as he could before he high-tailed it outta there <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Or had some sort of sexual fetish for glossy paper.....
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    You know, you're saying something... Did I mention that he's only moved three doors away and has his mailbox right next to mine (which is why I still don't understand why I keep getting his letters. I mean, c'mon, we have NAMES on our mailboxes. Can't danish postmen read?) ?
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  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--lolfighter+Aug 28 2003, 03:00 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Aug 28 2003, 03:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> You know, you're saying something... Did I mention that he's only moved three doors away and has his mailbox right next to mine (which is why I still don't understand why I keep getting his letters. I mean, c'mon, we have NAMES on our mailboxes. Can't danish postmen read?) ? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Maybe you've got a postman with a vengeance against you.
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  • RPG_JssmfulhudRPG_Jssmfulhud Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4006Members
    Thanks god we got a law for non-addressed commercial oriented material. Most of the stuff is non-addressed here, so our mailboxes can breathe easier now. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    first of all Denmark doesnt have College Nubcaek, so either you mean Gymnasium(yes it is Gymnasium in english too), or Highschool...or some 3rd thingy

    what about the "no spam mail plz" sticker you can get, or don't they respect it ? worth a shot anyways...
    or another option is put out a Box labeled "Commercials and Spam stuff here" XD
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    Here's something you can try. Read it on bash.org.

    Set aside all the credit card offers you get. Clip out coupons from all the magazines and set those aside, too. Once you have enough of both, fill the "Business Reply Mail" envelope they send you with coupons, then add exactly 33 pennies (Or the Danish equivelant) so that they have to pay more due to weight. Mail them. Once you get an angry call from the credit card company, say...

    "I sent you those coupons to help out with the cost of sending all the ads out! And those 33 cents were a mistake! I *DEMAND* my change back!"

    If they hang up on you, call them back and keep demanding your change, and to speak with the manager, with angry old-man threats about getting them fired. If they transfer you to the manager, DEMAND that he sends you your 33 cents back. Keep doing so until you get your money.

    A guy got a cheque from Visa for exactly 33 cents, from doing that. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Just a little fun.

    For magazines, find out the companys' addresses and mail them each a magazine from one of the other companies. If there are any forms, clip them out and fill in the address as the address of one of the companies. Watch mayhem ensue. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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