That's interesting. I don't get advertising like that. Well I have occasionally
gotten something after I bought something on line, but I found a way to
unsubscribe from the advertising emails. And actually, I don't buy much. I also
stopped getting many of the political emails that used to arrive. Some just
disappeared. Some, I unsubscribed from because it becomes clearer and clearer
to me each day that signing a petition in order to influence a politician, is
not going to influence the politician. It will just cause fund raising emails
to come my way.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
(Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2019 3:29 PM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Ludicrous Advertising
Every day I get advertising in my email in box as I am sure all of you do. I am
talking about advertising that is not technically spam because I have actually
done business with the advertising entities. Lately, of course, the advertising
has contained extensive mentions of black Friday and cyber Monday. But then
they have to start stretching these days for all they can get out of them. I
thought it was a real stretch when they started to refer to cyber week rather
than cyber Monday. But then I got an ad talking about black Friday week. How
they could turn a day into a week without expecting to be laughed at I do not
know. But I just got one from Hewlett Packard that beats even that one. It was
an ad warning me that cyber Monday will end in only a few days. Do these people
really not know the difference between a week and a day?
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Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind
and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says
everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the
fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan
