On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:09:06PM -0600, Henrik Hudson wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:53, Kraig Jones <jkjones at tcq.net> sent a > missive stating: > > I don't much like Microcenter. I don't care for them asking for > > personal information every time I buy any little thing like a stack of > > CDs. For saving a few pennies, it's not worth it to me to give them my > > phone number and address to get more junk mail. But mainly it's just > > the principle of the value of my privacy. > > Yeah, I'll give them my zipcode, but that's it. I've flat out told the guy no, > you are not getting my info. Of course, I still get flyers addressed to me > from them anyway, so they either look it up via CC info or just from the > standard marketing analysis garbage. I was surprised, when I bought something for the very first time, that they told me my address, to verify it... Resistance is futile... florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070220/29aee157/attachment.pgp