Sorry for the confusion. I meant advertising in Sea Kayaker etc...

I agree with you fully. We make sure we don't buy from anyone who calls us at home, mails us junk, or spams our E-mail.

I too have a whole list of companies I won't do business with.

Dale

: No, no no !!! Junk mail does NOT EVER result in a net increase in
: sales. For every one person that you see and feel positive about
: because they responded in some way to junk mail, there are many
: more that you don't hear from who might have bought stuff from
: you who will not now under any circumstances do business with you.

: I make a point of boycotting a company for five years for the first
: piece of junk mail they send me, an additional ten years for the
: next and twenty for the third - after that it gets academic.

: One company was so persistent with sending me junk mail that I
: started to boycott companies that admitted to any sort of association
: with that comapny, and I wrote to those companies in no uncertain
: terms saying why I was ceasing to do business with them. As this
: meant that I closed a credit card account and closed a building
: society account, withdrawing 33,000 pounds sterling (about $50k),
: I think I made my point. The company that suffered that loss did
: in fact succeed in stopping me getting junk mail from the original
: offender :-)

: The only way to stop SPAM is to make it clear to senders that it will
: result in a net loss of business, and, hopefully, bankruptcy and the
: owners spending the remaining years of their life in the gutter as
: down-as-outs shunned by all society for their fall from grace as a result
: of this HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE !!!

: I _really_ don't like junk mail :-)

: Andy