I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned.
Reducing Junk Mail
There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail:
- GreenDimes offers a free basic service, but I decided to do their $20 one-time fee because it offered a few extra things I wanted. GreenDimes walks you through some easy steps that will reduce unsolicited mail, and also lets you decline catalogs. Each time you receive an unwanted catalog, you go to GreenDimes and type the name of the catalog in. GreenDimes takes care of removing you from that catalog’s mailing list. I’ve been quite happy with this service, especially since it’s a one-time fee.
- ProQuo is a free junk-mail reduction service. In the future, they intend to make money when consumers opt-in to request offers; ProQuo will make money from those advertisers. I tried this service today. It lets […]
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I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned.
Reducing Junk Mail
There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail:
- GreenDimes offers a free basic service, but I decided to do their $20 one-time fee because it offered a few extra things I wanted. GreenDimes walks you through some easy steps that will reduce unsolicited mail, and also lets you decline catalogs. Each time you receive an unwanted catalog, you go to GreenDimes and type the name of the catalog in. GreenDimes takes care of removing you from that catalog’s mailing list. I’ve been quite happy with this service, especially since it’s a one-time fee.
- ProQuo is a free junk-mail reduction service. In the future, they intend to make money when consumers opt-in to request offers; ProQuo will make money from those advertisers. I tried this service today. It lets […]
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Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!
That’s my house, the blue one on the right. That’s my gold Toyota Highlander parked in the driveway. I can tell you even more, they took this picture the last two weeks of October 2007. How do I know? Those globs in the window they are Halloween Pumpkin decorations my wife and the kids put up. What … we are Columbo and Monk fans, I notice things like that
So how does Google know it’s me? After a few Google map searches from my IP where I specify my starting location as my house address, it’s not unreasonable to assume that’s where I live. If the New York Times […]
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