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Ending Harassment from Microsoft and the BSA?

Posted by Cliff on from the talk-to-the-hand dept.

Big_Joe asks: "Lately Microsoft has put a satellite office in the Grand Rapids, MI area. Because of this I, an end user working for a large contractual company, have been getting harassment mail from Microsoft and the BSA. The information they are using to contact me is information from Chicago's Comdex 3 years ago. Since then I have switch my career direction from Windows to Linux. I would like to get my name removed from any association with Microsoft products. The only systems I use with any Microsoft software installed are owned and maintained by my employer. An earlier story here said not to reply because it is more of a headache. So how do I get them to quit bugging me? Is there any legal action I can take for harassment? How do I tell them that I am no longer a customer and that they have no further right to pester me?" Hmmm... smells like more spam. How should one handle any corporation that does crap like this, especially one that makes backhanded threats toward your workplace?

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  1. For the record: by flikx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Grand Rapids, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, and Milwaukee are being singled out for a May 1 - 31 "grace period".

    If you hurry up and register with the grace period program, they come and audit you this summer, and the promise not to prosecute you for 'pirating' that occured before May 1.

    BSA 'grace'. Two of my offices are already getting warnings, and there are obnoxious advertisements in the paper, and on the radio.

    --
    One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
  2. Simple answer. by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 3, Informative

    You want them to stop contacting you. You don't want to contact them. The answer is simple. Set up a filter rule on your mailbox. Divert their messages to the trashcan. End of story.

  3. Use a US Postal Prohibitory order by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    File a US Postal Prohibitory order against them. It is a crime to send mail to an address for which you have received a Prohibitory order. This was orignally intended to stop pornographic junkmail, but it was ruled by the Supreme Court that the filer is the sole arbitor of what constitutes pornographic. If you think BSA mailings are porno - the US postal office can't argue with you.

    http://www.junkbusters.com/dmlaws.html#form