I just received the following e-mail message from AOL. I have never used their service so it will be interesting to see how they received my e-mail address. I've never used AIM either...

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I just got the exact same thing too!! :angry:

I haven't used AOL since 3.0 and don't expect to go back either....why can't they just understand that???

I'll be sending them a nice little reply when I get home tonight. The nice thing about this in the United States is that if you request to be removed from their e-mail list, they have to honor the request by law. I'm not sure if that works Internationally but I'm sure it's the same. Too bad there isn't a law that allows you to go find the person that pressed the send button and take care of matters how you see fit. :) Oh' well, it won't be the first time I've had to type up a message to get results.

Originally posted by markblair
I'll be sending them a nice little reply when I get home tonight. The nice thing about this in the United States is that if you request to be removed from their e-mail list, they have to honor the request by law. I'm not sure if that works Internationally but I'm sure it's the same. Too bad there isn't a law that allows you to go find the person that pressed the send button and take care of matters how you see fit. :) Oh' well, it won't be the first time I've had to type up a message to get results.

why bother typing??

calling AOL up is a great stress reliever!!!

Call up their 800 number ask to speak to a supervisor and start complaining/ranting.

tell them how muchyou dislike their service and how they should stop spamming....it's fun :D

We should start counting...

I was spammed too.

As if their stupid CDs stacking up in my mailbox weren't enough...

Originally posted by cyansmoker
As if their stupid CDs stacking up in my mailbox weren't enough...
Yeah, they make good coasters. We gotta find a use for those; get so many of 'em.

they are nice to throw like bluerock and blow the crap out of, but it takes a little work to make sure they go straight

Originally posted by rence

Yeah, they make good coasters. We gotta find a use for those; get so many of 'em.

LOL, I've wall papered a wall in my bedroom with some of my CDS..

I've got a plan to use the AOL, earthlink, and MSN CDS together to make a mosaic of something, I can only work the first 3 letters of my name so far, but by the end of the year I should have enough to make something creative.....any ideas??

Originally posted by akashd


LOL, I've wall papered a wall in my bedroom with some of my CDS..

I've got a plan to use the AOL, earthlink, and MSN CDS together to make a mosaic of something, I can only work the first 3 letters of my name so far, but by the end of the year I should have enough to make something creative.....any ideas??

Oh that's a creative idea.
I remember seing a thing on TV about a girl who has collected ALL their various designs. She has hundreds of them...

Originally posted by cyansmoker


Oh that's a creative idea.
I remember seing a thing on TV about a girl who has collected ALL their various designs. She has hundreds of them...

Thanks, I'm up at around 700 cds

I buy them from my neighbors at about $0.02 a piece and pick them up(the free ones) whenever I go to best buy or kmart or whatever....

Man, i wish there was a way we could somehow re-use them, convert them into CD-R's or CD-RW's.

Do they still come in DVD cases? That's about all I ws collecting them for. Throw away the CD and put a burnt CD into the case. Was great when you got a 2nd hand PS2 game with a nasty cover

Greg Moore

if that spam came out from their Virginia datacenter .. they could get put in jail .. in fact if there was a suit you could sue the for EVERY email that was sent.

i heard one business here were sued by 1200 recipients for 20 dollars an email.

(each recipient made 20 bucks)

but the business learnt a lesson

There are quite a few arts & crafts ideas you can do with AOL discs. I went to the Rockville Arts Place and looked at their quilt exhibit. One of my favorite pieces was "The Not-Enough-Free-Time-Blues", priced at $2,700. It was a 9-piece quilt with AOL and other unlimited ISP CDs sewn into each piece.