[lfjokes] Fight back!

[Simondo]

THREE LITTLE WORDS:

Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has
proposed Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a
telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time.

The three little words are "Hold On, Please."

Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of
hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so
time-consuming that boiler rooms would grind to a halt.

When you eventually hear the phone company's beep-beep-beep tone, 
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently completed its task.

This might be one of those articles you'll want to e-mail to your
friends. Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.


ADS

When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the
payment [and] let the companies throw them away.

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.
Send the pizza coupon to Citibank.

If you didn't get anything else that day then just send them their
application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your
name isn't on anything you send them.

You can send it back empty if you want to just to keep them
guessing!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting
their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get
junk mail, and the best of it is that 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....