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Re: very confusing.
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:01:57 -0500 (CDT)
A trick to do on mail (USPS) spammers is take the prepaid mailing = envelope they often include and tape it to a brick wrapped in brown = paper and drop it off at the post office. They have to pay the shipping. = If enough people do it, they go out of business.
That's simply false; local postmasters have had the discretion to discard your bricks for years, AND THEY DO.
In this case, do anything you can to waste his time and resources. Call = up and act interested in his services and have them go through their = sales pitch as many times as you can. Ask for them to mail you = literature. Have them write up proposals and quotes. Then when the last = step left is to actually commit to their service tell them you were just = pulling their chain, and why. If you eat up enough of their time they = end up attending to too few real paying customers and they go out of = business.
But that, on the other hand ... ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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