[153840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: very confusing.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Jun 13 21:46:16 2012
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: os10rules@gmail.com (Greg Ihnen)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:01:57 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <5588BF23-E54A-47DF-99D5-E9B5F215B44B@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>,
Scott Whittle <scott@iptechnologylabs.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
