[Dryerase] The Alarm!--You've got junkmail

[The Alarm!Newswire]

You’ve Got Junkmail!

By Michelle Stewart
The Alarm! Newspaper Collective

It takes just two guys in Northern California to raise a stink. Sick 
and tired of getting America Online disc  everywhere they went, two 
friends decided to launch a recall campaign. Their goal: gather 
1,000,000 AOL discs,return them to the rightful owner, and demand an 
end to all of the unsolicited junkmail.

To date they have approximately 81,000 and they need your help to reach 
their goal.

Aside from the fact that AOL assumes a right to bombard everyone’s 
lives with these pesky discs, the founders of the recall campaign point 
out the adverse environmental effects. Citing that there is at least a 
two-to-one packaging to disc ratio for each piece of junkmail sent out, 
the organizers say enough is enough. Unbelievably, this two-to-one 
ratio only relates to some of AOL’s more subtle advertising techniques.

More recently, AOL has transitioned away from the cardboard mailers to 
the tin holders that offer a colossal eight-to-one packaging-to-disc 
ratio.

On the website devoted to this AOL recall, there are visuals and 
discussions ranging from AOL disc art and experiments to ongoing 
debates surrounding the ratio of waste-to-disc mailers sent out by the 
company.


Whether you are annoyed about the wasteful disc industry, the 
overpackaging of the mailers or you are just plain tired of finding 
your mailbox loaded with AOL propoganda, you are in luck. You have a 
place to find solace and companionship, an arena of shared 
frustration…and somewhere to send those !@#*$)- discs!  As many 
opponents point out, if the discs were at least re-writable it would be 
just a little less annoying to find the discs everywhere you go!

So, the next time you find an AOL disc you will never use, remember 
this: www.NoMoreAOLcds.com.

Visit the site, and see if you want to join this campaign to return a 
million discs. If not, grin and bear it when you hear the clank of 
another disc hitting the bottom of your mailbox.

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