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In the News (Sat 12 Dec 09)

  
  Junk mail
Mail which due to its' content, causes the recipient distress, such as abusive, obscene or offensive email should be reported immediately to Postmaster@city.ac.uk.
Many people regards as junk any unsolicited mail, irrespective of source or content, which is of no interest to the recipient, causes the recipient (or his/her service-provider) to incur costs (whether directly or indirectly), or which annoys the recipient.
If you receive a large amount of junk mail from a single site or originator, or if you wish to report the receipt of junk email, please forward a copy to postmaster@city.ac.uk, with the words "junk email report" in the subject.
www.city.ac.uk /tsg/email/junkmail.html   (467 words)

  
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Junk mail can be defined as unsolicited promotional mail that is unwanted.(1) Junk mail is most often, but not always, third class mail sent via bulk rates.
Surviving relatives have been tormented by receiving new sources of unsolicited junk mail addressed to a lost and loved family member, even ten years after the family member has died.(4) The elderly fall prey to and are especially targeted by deceptive mail practices, prompting the passage of the Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act of 1990.
The same exact pieces of mail which a rural resident is forced to receive a city resident could stop by requesting the sender to simply delete their (city) address from the sender's list.
www.rtis.com /reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/April95/junkml.htm   (2280 words)

  
 Junk Mail Reduction Fact Sheet
The easiest way to handle first class junk mail is to write "refused" on the envelope and mail it back to the sender.
If you are writing from an address that receives junk mail to previous residents and/or other family members make sure to say "please cover all other addressees at this address" in your letter.
Remember, to maximize the reduction of junk mail you not only have to write to the above companies, but you should also contact every company that sends you a bill, magazine or catalog and request privacy on your address and phone number.
www.epa.state.oh.us /opp/consumer/junkmail.html   (986 words)

  
 OS X Mail Filters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of the nice things about OS X Mail is that you don't have to spend time figure out your logic statements in order to filter junk mail.
Every mail message that OSX Mail thinks is junk mail will have a button at the top of the window that says "Not Junk".
Any mail that comes in as newly established Junk Mail after that will be marked as junk mail in the same was as it was in the training mode, if detected by OS X Mail.
www.csun.edu /itr/email/spam/OSXmailfilter.html   (413 words)

  
 Using the Junk Mail Controls in Mozilla
The feature uses the Bayesian classification method, which requires that you first train Mozilla by showing it a bunch of mail that is junk, and a bunch of mail that is not.
Automatically delete junk messages older than __ days from this folder: If you are confident old messages classified as junk are indeed junk mail, check this option to automatically delete old junk messages after a grace period.
It may cost little for Junk mail senders to send and receive messages, but it costs network carriers to process both spam and your bounce messages, and your ISP may prohibit the uses of fake bounces.
www.mozilla.org /start/1.5/extra/using-junk-control.html   (1190 words)

  
 Junk Mail Controls - MozillaZine Knowledge Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
To train the junk-mail filtering, you need to mark messages that you've received as either "junk" or "not junk", and it's important that you mark both types of messages rather than simply the ones that are junk.
Initially, the automatic junk mail detection for incoming messages might not be very accurate because it hasn't yet been trained very much, and you should thus be careful to check your Junk folder to see if any non-junk messages have been mistakenly detected as junk.
Enter junk in the Filter field to show only the preferences that contain junk in thier name, and then double-click on mail.adaptivefilters.junk_threshold, enter 50 in the edit field and press the OK button.
kb.mozillazine.org /Junk_Mail_Controls   (913 words)

  
 Junk Mail Reduction Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Each time you order something by mail or telephone, subscribe to a publication, enter a sweepstakes or donate to a charity, chances are your name will be added to a mailing list.
If you wish to reduce junk mail, you need to keep your name off mailing lists so that it won't be traded, rented, or sold.
Be sure to include the mailing label from the catalog, or copy your address information and any customer codes from the label exactly as they appear.
www.cityofmesa.org /waste/Junk_Mail.asp   (536 words)

  
 Do-it-yourself: Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
Junk mail may seem as inevitable as death and taxes, but with a little patience there are effective ways to tackle the problem.
The amount of paper junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering -- some 4 million tons, nearly half of which is never opened.
Bulk mail is the hardest to deal with because the USPS actively provides addresses, support and encouragement to mailers.
www.obviously.com /junkmail   (2211 words)

  
 Spam Policy: Junk E-Mail
Junk mail advertising shifts the cost of advertising from the sender to the recipient, who must pay the costs of maintaining the computers and networks that the senders of junk e-mail use.
In addition, junk e-mailers have become fairly unscrupulous: junk e-mail typically includes forged or invalid "From:" headers, making a reply or complaint to the sender difficult or impossible.
Apart from directing complaints to the administrators of Internet providers whose users send such mail, and from using SpamAssassin to automatically channel most of these messages into a specific folder, the best thing to do with these messages is to just trash them as you would the junk mail you get at home.
www.dartmouth.edu /comp/about/policies/email/spam.html   (660 words)

  
 Bulk mail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bulk mail broadly refers to mail that is mailed and processed in bulk at reduced rates.
Although bulk mail, junk mail, and admail are, strictly speaking, not synonyms, the terms are used in common parlance to refer to advertising circulars, free trial CDs, pre-approved credit card applications, and other unsolicited merchandising invitations delivered by mail to homes and businesses.
The term "junk" comes from the fact that in the majority of cases mail is discarded before it is opened by the recipient.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulk_mail   (253 words)

  
 Cleveland Junk Mail Recycling
To reduce junk mail, you need to reduce access to your name and address so that it won't be traded, rented, or sold to companies who send you unwanted mail.
This kit will help keep new junk mail from finding its way to your doorstep, show you how to reduce your current flow of mail, and offer recycling options for the occasional piece that sneaks in.
Some junk mail is marked "address correction requested" or "return postage guaranteed." If your mail has this wording, return it unopened to the sender by writing "Refused-return to sender" on the envelope.
www.parkworks.org /recycle/junkmail.htm   (922 words)

  
 NYCWasteLe$$ individual: Junk mail
We call it junk mail, the US Postal Service calls it third class bulk mail, and advertisers call it direct mail.
Junk mail includes the advertisements, credit card applications, donation solicitations, catalogs, and numerous other pieces of mail that are sent to thousands of potential customers at once.
When you enter contests or sweepstakes, subscribe to magazines, and fill out warranty cards, your name and address often are added to mailing lists that are given or sold to other organizations.
www.nyc.gov /html/nycwasteless/html/at_home/tips_home_junkmail.shtml   (548 words)

  
 You Can Reduce Unwanted Mail
In 1990, over 418,000 tons of bulk mail were thrown away unopened in the U.S. Reducing junk mail saves landfill space, conserves natural resources, and may reduce your trash bill.
Every time you buy something, order a product by mail or on the Web, enter a contest, make a donation, write a check, subscribe to a magazine, or send in a warranty card, chances are your name and address are being added to a mailing list of some kind.
If you receive unwanted flyers or mail, call the customer service department of the organization or business responsible and request that your name be removed from their mailing list.
www.ciwmb.ca.gov /WPW/Home/JunkMail.htm   (496 words)

  
 Trash your junk mail - Feb. 27, 2003
These first three are among the main steps recommended in the "Stop the Junk Mail" Kit, available online at http://www.stopjunk.com/, and should reduce the amount of junk mail you receive by well over half.
Registration cards and warranties will make the junk mail gods smile on you till the end of your days (or maybe longer, as death does not seem to stop direct marketers from targeting someone's business).
The form was created to stop pornographic junk mail, but the Supreme Court decided someone could use it to object to mailed solicitations of any kind.
money.cnn.com /2001/11/01/saving/q_junk_mail   (817 words)

  
 Junk Mail FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In the first case, you have to talk to the company that is sending the mail, and in the second, you have to talk to whoever they bought your name from.
In all cases, be polite, don't refer to "junk mail" unless the clerk wants to know why you care, and be persistent.
The mail is usually opened by people who only get paid for actual orders they pass on to the company, so they don't often bother to relay complaints or count the number of replies that didn't contain orders.
www.faqs.org /faqs/privacy/junk-mail   (2910 words)

  
 Reducing Junk Mail
Junk mail is advertising of one sort or another that arrives in your postal mailbox along with the mail you really want or need.
To reduce mailings by prize promoters, avoid participating in sweepstakes and contests unless you are given the opportunity to "opt out" of any mailing lists that are created.
Junk mail is only junk when you don't want to receive it.
www.privacyrights.org /fs/fs4-junk.htm   (3772 words)

  
 IAT Services: Junk Mail Filtering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This means the mail will only be filtered to the Junk E-Mail folder when you retrieve your e-mail using Outlook 2003.
Conversely, it is also possible that valid messages will periodically be identified as "junk e-mail." Within Microsoft Outlook and Webmail, you can create rules to trust mail from certain senders and to always regard mail from other senders as spam.
The purpose of moving junk e-mail to a folder instead of simply deleting it is to give the user an opportunity to review what's been sorted for potentially valid messages.
iatservices.missouri.edu /e-mail/filters.html   (1076 words)

  
 Stop Junk Mail and Telemarketing
About 62 million trees and 25 billion gallons of water are used to produce a typical year's worth of junk mail in the United States.
Mail that displays the message "address-correction requested" or "return postage guaranteed" can be returned unopened to the sender by writing "Refused - Return to Sender" on the envelope.
If there is a postage-paid return envelope inside the solicitation, detach your mailing label from the envelope, attach it with a note asking that your name be deleted and mail it back to the sender.
www.fightidentitytheft.com /junkmail.html   (833 words)

  
 Stop junk mail - easy kit to block bulk mail
The Stop the Junk Mail Kit was researched and developed by a former junk mail copywriter.
Thanks." --S.W. Midwest City, OK "Since using the Stop The Junk Mail Kit, I have noticed a dramatic reduction in the amount of unwanted mail.
Not only have I been able to eliminate unwanted mail and advertisements, I have been able to control the frequency for which I receive catalogs from the companies I want to do business with.
www.stopjunk.com   (671 words)

  
 Stop Junk Email
The junk email, from more than one of their customers, was eventually deleted from the mail queue.
Junk email wastes recipient's valuable time, because they have to spend extra time to download the unwanted messages, and then to wade through the junk email in order to get to the email they actually want.
Junk email is barely interactive at best, and is often not interactive at all, because the sender forged a fake return address to avoid retribution.
www.jcrdesign.com /junkemail.html   (4109 words)

  
 Junk Mail
That count includes mailings from Guideposts Magazine about buying their books, multiple mailings from my alma mater (that I have already received at my office - twice!), and of course more of the same stuff that I've already received at my home.
Five pieces of junk mail a week, times 52 weeks, times three pages of paper on average per mailing, equals 780 pieces of paper.
I have started writing letters to various junk mailers asking to be removed from their mailing lists.
www.planetmike.com /writings/junkmail.shtml   (1490 words)

  
 Junk Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The amount of junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering—some four million tons, nearly half of which is never opened.
Reducing the amount of junk mail you receive will lessen the impact that junk mail production has on the environment.
This way, if unwanted mail arrives at your door you will be able to track who is giving out your name and can request that they stop.
www.concordnet.org /dpw/recycle/html/junkmail.html   (423 words)

  
 ITS GroupWise Junk Mail Handling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Setting up the Junk Mail feature lets users move the mail to a Junk Mail folder or block it from entering your mailbox based on the e-mail address or domain name of the sender.
Enabling CanIt-Pro, NIU's enterprise spam solution, is a more comprehensive and preferred method available for all mail addressed to the NIU community.
Junk sender - messages are forwarded to the Junk Mail folder when individual e-mail addresses or domain names appear on this list.
www.niu.edu /its/GroupWise/GW_JunkMail.shtml   (224 words)

  
 Junk Mail Opt-Out
Not only does junk mail clog the postal system and create a nuisance for you, but it also uses up valuable natural resources and contributes to pollution and litter problems.
For every ton of paper generated in the form of junk mail, 17 trees are destroyed.
Tons of junk mail are going to landfills around the country every day, depleting precious landfill space.
www.p2pays.org /main/junk.asp   (458 words)

  
 Reduce JUNK MAIL
Junk mail database companies can also acquire your personal information from public agencies.
Direct mail marketers are underwriting a recent initiative to help companies reduce junk mail by removing ex-employees from outside mailing lists.
The EcoLogical Mail Coalition provides the service free to enrolled companies that want to save on disposal costs, reduce waste and help conserve landfill space.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /recycling/awareness/facts/factsheets/junkmail.htm   (525 words)

  
 Residential Junk Mail Kit | San Mateo County RecycleWorks | Reuse Recycling San Mateo
Contacting direct marketing companies will not get your name off mailing lists of catalogs or brochures that you have indirectly solicited by utilizing their services in the past.
Companies and organizations that you do business with are the source of the majority of your junk mail.
You may be initiating junk mail without realizing it.
www.recycleworks.org /junkmail/residential.html   (994 words)

  
 Stop Junk Mail, Telemarketing and Spam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After much research and too much junk mail being thrown into the recycle bin, I decided to put together this website hoping to sorta meld all the information I got from researching the web, making calls, and asking questions.
There are companies that charge a small fee to do this for you, but its fairly easy to do and stops you from having to yet again, give out your infomation and put your trust in someone else not to sell it to other junk mail hounds.
These junk mail companies get your information anytime you sign up for a sweepstakes, donate money, fill out product warranty cards, etc. Anytime you do anything that requires you give out your name and address, rest assured it is being sold to some junk mail company.
www.junkmailstopper.com   (940 words)

  
 888CleanLA.com Los Angeles County Environment Junk Mail Page
Information about you may be collected and added to a mailing list whenever you enter a contest, make a donation, buy something, order a product, or send in a subscription or warranty card.
This mailing list may in turn be sold or traded with other companies.
MPS will retain your information in their database for five years and will mail this information to business subscribers four times a year.
ladpw.org /epd/junkmail/index.cfm   (663 words)

  
 Spam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nearly three trillion spam messages are sent each year - 13 times the total snail mail delivered by the U.S. Postal service.
The average wired American is hit with nearly 2,200 spam messages annually - this after most ISPs have filtered 80-90 percent of the junk messages.
Junk email is an issue not only reserved for individuals - it is estimated that spam costs legitimate businesses $9 billion dollars a year.
www.atg.wa.gov /junkemail   (593 words)

  
 CDR - Junk Mail
Companies exist (called mailing list brokers) that are in the business of trading, selling and renting mailing list information.
In this case, if the envelope was mailed first class, the U.S. Postal Service will attempt to trace it back to the sender.
Avoid having your name sold to advertisers by specifically requesting that your name not be lent, sold or traded to any other organization for their mailing lists whenever you send a check for donations, for mail order purchases, to renew subscriptions or when returning a warranty card.
www.recyclestuff.org /JunkMail.asp   (760 words)

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