PSA: get your name off oh-so-many mailing lists...

my friend john needs a blog.  he's quite the social butterfly and seemingly the center of his social universe.  he hosts a monthly pool night at a bar of his liking every month and has done so nearly non-stop for the past 10 years.  he's prone to sending large emails out to large groups of friends with what's going on in his world, when the next pool night is, etc.  honestly, i do appreciate seeing his name in my inbox--but it sure seems like if he had a blog that he would get PLENTY of readership. anyways... his most recent email was GREAT.  why, you ask?  it was so darn USEFUL!

so, on his behalf... i present... your useful tip of the day:

To: Pool Night list

This is a PSA (Public Service Announcement) unrelated to Pool night.
(The next pool night will probably be the first week of March.)

The ability to quickly get off the ValPak coupon mailing list and
similar seems so useful, that I thought I would share this website
with y'all:

http://stopjunkmail.org/resident2.htm

We've recently been on a kick of calling catalogs and getting off the
list, and it has reduced the amount of wastage that we recycle
tremendously. The concept here is that it takes trees to make junk
mail and gasoline to deliver it, and even if you recycle, only a
percentage is recaptured. Better to stop the junk mail altogether,
and it makes your life less aggravating to boot!

--John