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Well, AOL certainly contributed more than it's fair share!

Here's a picture of their current heap from a couple of months ago, approximately 60,000 or so. As you would know if you read the article, they scratch them and then place them on strings for storage.

Also, they've done their own calculations on exactly how much space and weight these will take up (even how many trucks they'll need when they cart them cross country to AOL HQ.)

And finally, moderators, please do your duty and mod down all the retards (who obviously didn't read the article) who keep posting "Won't they just send the CDs back out?"

Here's a picture of their current heap from a couple of months ago, approximately 60,000 or so. As you would know if you read the article, they scratch them and then place them on strings for storage.

Also, they've done their own calculations on exactly how much space and weight these will take up (even how many trucks they'll need when they cart them cross country to AOL HQ.)

And finally, moderators, please do your duty and mod down all the retards (who obviously didn't read the article) who keep posting "Won't they just send the CDs back out?"

From the faq.

2. Where are you going to store all those CDs?

One million CDs is about 17 tons (we've done our homework). They will be stored in our High-Tech Secure Storage Facility: MyBackYard(tm)

For those that didn't read the article, the 2 guys site is here

www.nomoreaolcds.com ...surprized that no other karma-whore did that yet. -D

I looked through those guy's FAQ and I didn't see an explanation how the trucks are supposed to get pass the gates (presuming AOL HQ is fenced)

Also, isn't dumping tons of CDs on the street illegal?

Tell them to mark any and all AOL mail "RETURN TO SENDER" and AOL will bear even greater costs, at no cost to the consumer.

Actually, that won't work. The CD's are shipped 4th class mail. If you mark it return to sender, the post office will return it to the earth. They even mention it in the FAQ

Drop off a million discs in a truckload, and they'll just have someone on the maintenance staff cart them off. End of problem. But if you just mail each disc *back* to AOL, then they'll have to continually weed out all of the discs they get, possibly for years.

Read their FAQ. Here's why:

4. Why don't we just send our CDs right back to AOL ourselves?

Quite frankly, AOL is unlikely to change their behavior without a large public demonstration of dissatisfaction. Getting some of their junk mail back each day will have little if any effect. However, receiving several truckloads of their CDs, all at once in broad daylight, with the media in full attendance, will have a larger impact. Note that AOL sends this stuff out as bulk mail - there's no return postage paid, so writing "Return To Sender" and throwing it back in the mail just makes more work for the Post Office (they have to pick them up and sort them out, then toss 'em in the garbage. AOL will not see that CD or pay any additional postage).

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

You crazy Aussies have only sent in 37 CD's!

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

On their website, they have a (worthless) hit counter..

From the Perl FAQ:
I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this?
Didn't anyone ever tell you web-page hit counters were useless? They don't count number of hits, they're a waste of time, and they serve only to stroke the writer's vanity. It's better to pick a random number; they're more realistic.

Yeah, that seems to be par for slashdot these days.

Google holds the answer, however:

nomoreaolcds.com

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Haikus

No More AOL CD's.com

Fun things to do with AOL CD's

Various links for Slashdotites pleasure

Haikus

No More AOL CD's.com

Fun things to do with AOL CD's

Various links for Slashdotites pleasure

Haikus

No More AOL CD's.com

Fun things to do with AOL CD's

Well as far as the AOL CDs, send them to these guys. Their web design skills aren't great, but they have a cool idea for all those spam CDs. I found the statistics about how much space and weight all those CDs take up to be rather interesting. Would be fun to see the look on the faces of the AOL execs if these guys ever get around to delivering these.

That's what this is for.

AOL used a trick similar to this back in the day (which is why I stuck with my good ol' PPP dialup) where in order to get the free hours you had to give them a credit card number for "verification". Of course, once your free hours ran out, they just started charging you. (Do they still do this?)

No, but I think they've started using banking account information in place of the credit cards. I can't be sure, though, since any AOL CD that arrives in my mailbox is either shattered into pieces, microwaved, or given to the No More AOL CDs collection.

Why not send them to No more AOL CD's instead?

They sure have plenty of reason!


Although this post was intended as humor, it could sarcastically be used as a defense by Microshaft that AOL is stifling competition by blanketing the country with AOL CD's, while MSN only offers service through conventional advertising. I don't think it'd hold up in court though, especially since every single computer with Microshaft software asks you about three times a day if you want to have MSN service.

May I suggest to you, and all you AOL CD haters, to save up your CD's and ship them to nomoreaolcds.com? They have over 7,000 already, but need alot more to reach their goal of one million!

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com

Yes I know this is off-topic but it is in a good cause.