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Subject: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: ChuckyG on 05/27/02 at 08:18 p.m.

Verisign, the world's shiftiest, slimiest domain name registar on the planet, is engaging in a new nasty practice.. they send "renewal" bills for domains they don't actually have the right to bill for. It's a new version of "slamming", which is what rogue phone companies used to do, which is switch your long distance phone carrier without your express permission.  They're getting sued right now, but they're still sending out the letters..

I've dealt with this company, at length. They are by far one of the worst companies I ever dealt with. I am so glad I got all of my domains moved away from these sleaze balls. The only reason I ever dealt with them, is back in 1997, they were the only people allowed to register domain names. They make it very hard to move away from them once you use them. Think of them as the mob.

Now that you know a little background, the fun part.  The "renewal" forms come with a Postage Paid Envelope.  I'm of course not sending back my letter, or a check, since they certainly don't deserve my money.  What I want to do, is send them something nasty, that isn't illegal.

I was going to write a nasty letter, but I doubt they'd care.  I was leaning towards pornography, but it would have to be something really nasty so there's no chance the person opening it would like it.  Maybe autopsy pictures...

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Cat_Lover on 05/27/02 at 08:25 p.m.

Try tearing the renewal bill in about one hundred pieces and then send that! Put on the outside of the envelope, POSTAGE TO BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE, and go ahead and send it with NO POSTAGE!

Peace,Cat Lover

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: ChuckyG on 05/27/02 at 08:31 p.m.


Quoting:
Try tearing the renewal bill in about one hundred pieces and then send that! Put on the outside of the envelope, POSTAGE TO BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE, and go ahead and send it with NO POSTAGE!

Peace,Cat Lover
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that's just it, I don't even have to write that, this is a postage paid envelope... I do have a shreader at work, but I'd rather go for the shock value

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Natalie on 05/27/02 at 08:58 p.m.

Pick your nose and send them a booger.  That's a pretty subtle way of letting them know you think they're "slimeballs."

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Screwball54 on 05/27/02 at 10:04 p.m.

Drive five towns over and send them a letter with a fake return address full of a mysterious white powder, that should shut them down for a couple days.  Although, you'd have to be really carful to leave nothing on the envolope that could Identify you as the original sender, and If you got caught the punishment is a little high.

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: southernspitfire on 05/27/02 at 10:07 p.m.

since the postage due will amount to how much in weight was sent...try sending something as heavy as you can that will fit in the envelope..I do that all the time to these people that you BEG to stop sending you junk mail and won't....most of the time this will stop them in their tracks..they don't want to pay for their junk mail back!!!!!!!!!

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Wicked Lester on 05/27/02 at 10:21 p.m.

You could put a horsehead in a box, then attach the postage paid envelope to it. Very Godfatheresque!  :D

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: langdon_hughes on 05/27/02 at 11:07 p.m.

Have we left our youth so far behind that there's a problem with dog poo?

(Note: To anyone who is unfortunate enough to be employed opening mail for a widely-disliked entity, I AM JOKING.)

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: philbo_baggins on 05/28/02 at 04:13 a.m.

Go to a few hundred pornographic websites and sign in as "webmaster@verisign.com"

;-)

Phil

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: dagwood on 05/28/02 at 06:57 a.m.


Quoting:
Have we left our youth so far behind that there's a problem with dog poo?

(Note: To anyone who is unfortunate enough to be employed opening mail for a widely-disliked entity, I AM JOKING.)
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I work for one of these companies (not the company that sends the stuff though....we do data entry so the stuff comes directly to our company).  Messy stuff isn't good...then you have to clean it up.  We do get a kick out of the porn.  One guy sent an entire deck of playing cards with naked guys on them.  I agree with Cricket, make it as heavy as possible, then they have to pay more postage.

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Kryllith on 05/28/02 at 08:39 a.m.

Anthrax? Nah, that's probably not a good idea. I could suggest various other fine, white powders but that's like to put you in the same amount of trouble. Something heavy might be good though. Maybe you could fill it up with all those metal slugs that idiots have a tendency to stick in arcade machines, hoping to fool the machine and instead just gumming up the slots...

Kryllith

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: ChuckyG on 05/28/02 at 10:01 a.m.


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I work for one of these companies (not the company that sends the stuff though....we do data entry so the stuff comes directly to our company).  Messy stuff isn't good...then you have to clean it up.  We do get a kick out of the porn.  One guy sent an entire deck of playing cards with naked guys on them.  I agree with Cricket, make it as heavy as possible, then they have to pay more postage.
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from what I've read, if the letter weighs more than what they've pre-paid for, they won't send it..

I thought about white powder, but I'm sure the feds would find me somehow.. so no, not gonna risk that..

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Kryllith on 05/28/02 at 10:04 a.m.

Send them Time-Share information...

Kryllith

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: ThunderVamp9 on 05/28/02 at 02:03 p.m.

Send them a bill for the time you wasted reading through their mail.  $50 an hour sounds about right...

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Indy Gent on 05/28/02 at 02:20 p.m.

I've heard about some kid that avenged his punishment from school by baking a cake for the faculty. One of the ingredients was his own pubic hair. You could do something like that and pretend you've buried the hatchet with these maroons. ;D

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Tarzan Boy (Guest) on 05/28/02 at 05:33 p.m.

Naw man, go with the smear campaign: smear the bill on dog-poo, snot, rancid products, mysterious short curly hair, and such. THEN, log on the porn sites with their address.

Tarzan Boy

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: dagwood on 05/28/02 at 07:09 p.m.


Quoting:


from what I've read, if the letter weighs more than what they've pre-paid for, they won't send it..


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That's not always the case...we got 3 metal slugs about the size of silver dollars...pretty heavy.  Lately we have gotten coins, and one containing screws and nuts.

Now, if you are looking to make a mess..we opened one up that contained flour.  If they have an opening machine (which I am sure they do), that will blow flour everywhere.  Then again, that comes back to the white powder in mail problem.

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Banasy on 05/29/02 at 01:47 a.m.

Send them a bill for advertising on your site!  Be sure to thank them for thoughtfully providing their own envelope!

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Gambo on 06/13/02 at 02:47 p.m.




So, Chucky, what did you do finally?  I'm curious.

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Junior on 06/13/02 at 02:55 p.m.


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So, Chucky, what did you do finally?  I'm curious.
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I've been wondering too.

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: ChuckyG on 06/13/02 at 03:04 p.m.


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I've been wondering too.
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nothing.. I just stumpled upon the unused envelope yesterday.. from the sounds of it, flour would make a great mess, but the whole powder thing scares me (I don't want any poor sap who works for these people to think they caught anthrax) so maybe I'll just do some scheizer porn or something

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Goreripper on 06/13/02 at 03:11 p.m.

The only problem with sending something nasty is that it will never get to the people who need to get it. The letter will end up in a mailing room and some poor Joe who gets half a buck a letter to open them will get flour all over him/her. I guess it would make you feel better, but I would suggest you do something proactive rather than reactive and continue to educate people as to how crooked this company is.

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Tarzan Boy (Guest) on 06/13/02 at 03:38 p.m.


Quoting:
The only problem with sending something nasty is that it will never get to the people who need to get it. The letter will end up in a mailing room and some poor Joe who gets half a buck a letter to open them will get flour all over him/her. I guess it would make you feel better, but I would suggest you do something proactive rather than reactive and continue to educate people as to how crooked this company is.
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Oooh, that's right. I was such a working sap, now that I think about it. Still, if I were to reminesce about the time I got all powdered up by a letter and me running like a maniac and screaming like a woman all over the floor - it might make for an interesting anecdote later on over a couple of beers.

Tarzan Boy

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: Goreripper on 06/13/02 at 04:07 p.m.


Quoting:


Oooh, that's right. I was such a working sap, now that I think about it. Still, if I were to reminesce about the time I got all powdered up by a letter and me running like a maniac and screaming like a woman all over the floor - it might make for an interesting anecdote later on over a couple of beers.

Tarzan Boy
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;D

But that wouldn't solve Chucky's problem would it?

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: MissInformation on 06/13/02 at 04:25 p.m.


Quoting:


nothing.. I just stumpled upon the unused envelope yesterday.. from the sounds of it, flour would make a great mess, but the whole powder thing scares me (I don't want any poor sap who works for these people to think they caught anthrax) so maybe I'll just do some scheizer porn or something
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If you take people's advice and sign up on porn sites with their address, do so from a public place like the library.  IP addresses can be traced very easily...

MissInformation
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Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: philbo_baggins on 06/14/02 at 03:11 a.m.


Quoting:
 IP addresses can be traced very easily...
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Use a proxy (or several) - there's a lot of anonymizing proxies out there, most of which are subscription-based, but I found a couple of free but slow ones last time I looked.  

However, subscribing to a porn site using their email is unlikely to end up being traced to you: I have a "friend" who finally (like, last month) owned up to doing that using my email address as a joke two or three years ago: I still get dozens of pornospam messages a week (but have a very rigorous filter set up now, as replying saying "remove" is counterproductive).  I'm setting up a pop3 server at home for the family emails, which I'm going to send "this email address doesn't exist" bounces in the hope of cutting down the number.

:-(

Phil

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: dagwood on 06/14/02 at 05:52 a.m.


Quoting:

as replying saying "remove" is counterproductive
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Ain't that the truth...I tried to reply and say remove only to get a reply saying that the unsubscribe address they gave doesn't exist ::)

Subject: Re: What should I mail them? Help me out...

Written By: RockandRollFan on 06/14/02 at 12:04 a.m.


Quoting:


They make it very hard to move away from them once you use them. Think of them as the mob.

What I want to do, is send them something nasty, that isn't illegal.


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Try finding out information on the main people associated with the crap site and maybe get aol to take over as thier ISP.  They certainly seem to be much like aol, in that they won't let you go once the have thier filthy mits on you ;)