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One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL
nicedream writes "Two guys from California are trying to give AOL a taste of its own medicine. They're asking people to send them AOL discs, and they're going to drop them off at the company's doorstep once they collect 1 million discs. My favorite quote: "We're going to AOL and say, 'You've got mail"." seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours. A million people do *that* and I bet they'd stop filling our mailboxes with the landfill of tomorrow.
But if they aren't being sent, then they don't need to be processed through the post office, which would save money and keep costs down as well.
Plus, with people not signing up for AOL, that's less access to email and more people writing snail mail, so there's your revenue source right back again.
I remember it from a 'The Register' story earlier today. Slashdot, as usual, just repeats stories from other better news sites.
That reminds me of the time I got a letter which said "Darling, I love you and I cannot live without you. Marry me or I will kill myself." I was a bit taken aback, until I checked the envelope. It was addressed to "Occupant".