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spam

Online Unsolicited, commercial bulk–junk E-mail. See Mail list, USENET.
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There are several schemes to opt out of some junk mail, but awareness is very low and we feel a public debate on junk mail could help address this growing problem.
Have your say on cutting [...]; LETTERS
In 2007 when we presented him with evidence of the junk mail scams that he was facilitating he gave us a similar excuse to the one he had tried in court, bleating: "I am just a fulfilment house."
Stamped out: Junk mailer is facing jail
She added: "This also throws down the gauntlet to those companies hand-delivering brochures and fast-food menus to respect 'no junk mail' signs and only deliver what people want."
Website to stop junk mail delivery
As marketers, these companies sought to take the lead in the movement toward reducing unwanted emails, phone calls and junk mail.
COMPANIES JOIN FORCES TO SAVE ONE MILLION TREES
41pounds will reduce subscribers' junk mail by 80 to 95 percent for five years and donate $15 of the $41 fee to AMERICAN FORESTS.
Trash junk mail
Although we appreciate junk mail is an important source of income for Royal Mail, we don't feel delivering more junk mail is the way to keep Royal Mail profitable.
Your View
WASHINGTON -- A new series of advertisements launching this week to draw more attention to "interchange" fees will ask Americans if they ever wonder who pays for all the credit card junk mail they receive.
Merchants Payments Coalition Launches Ads about Credit Card Fees
THE actions of a rebel postman who told customers how to avoid receiving junk mail has led to hundreds of thousands of people signing up to opt-out schemes.
THOUSANDS DUMP THE JUNK MAIL AFTER POSTMAN'S ADVICE
Meanwhile, the Royal Mail was warned yesterday that abolishing the limit on junk mail deliveries to people's homes will damage the environment and cost council tax payers more.
Watchdog launches early post inquiry
Anti-spam enforcement authorities in 13 European countries recently agreed to share information and pursue complaints across borders in a joint drive to combat electronic junk mail. The nations will cooperate in investigating complaints about cross-border spare from anywhere within the European Union to make it easier to identify and prosecute spammers anywhere in Europe.
Nations join to combat cross-border spam
Who doesn't get junk mail? Whose mail box isn't regularly stuffed with requests for donations, pleas for political support, "fantastic" bargains for goods and services, "now or never" savings on subscriptions, etc.?
Interesting junk mail
Our parents, on the other hand, typically consider an invasion of physical mail such as excessive advertisements, unknown mailings, junk mail, even solicitation phone calls, as a severe invasion of their personal "space."
College students reveal how they prefer to get information and marketing pitches

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