Ending Harassment from Microsoft and the BSA?

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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you must request to be removed from thier list

[BroadbandBradley]

send a certified letter, make copies for your records. make it clear that you consider this harassment as you are no longer a customer,and that if they continue to send you stuff that you will seek damages. Marketing companies are required by law to maintain a 'blacklist' of customers who asked not to be contacted.

Don't hide from the evil giant, they prey on fear.

For the record:

[flikx]

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.