If I have to get unsolicited advertising material (and I'd prefer not to), I'd prefer to get it by email, seeing I can delete emails unread and I am already sitting at my computer reading email or doing something else computer related when they arrive in my inbox, so they don't actually take up much of my time or destroy any trees in the process and they don't distract me from doing something else unless I want to be distracted. Paper junk mail I can recycle and there are times when it actually advertises things I used and need, but the phone calls drive me troppo. If they arrive at home, I or someone else has to make an effort to answer the phone and if they arrive at work, they often interrupt my train of thought for long enough to make it difficult to get it back into gear. The only thing that annoys me as much as telephone spam is fax spam where *I* have to pay for paper and toner to get information that is totally irrelevant.
You have to wonder how many people might be influenced to vote for their local Liberal candidate on the basis of a pre-recorded phone call from John Howard saying he knows the person concerned vs the number who would be so annoyed that they decide to put the local Liberal candidate as far down their preferences as they can. And what better uses the money it costs could be put to. They really, really don't get it. Judy -- "There is no socially and politically neutral theology; in the struggle for life and death, theology must take sides." - Miguez Bomino Rev Judy Redman Uniting Church Chaplain University of New England Armidale 2351 ph: +61 2 6773 3739 fax: +61 2 6773 3749 web: http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
