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My post about phone book spam on Consumerist today

January 5, 2009

In which we learn from Consumerist commenters that “to give someone what for” is a severely dated expression unknown by today’s youth, and in which we glorify the exploits of local consumer vigilante Ed Kohler.
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Yellow Pages is Paying Bloggers to Say Nice Things About Them

September 30, 2008

This has “desperation” written all over it. Yellow Pages is Paying Bloggers to Say Nice Things About Them | The Deets

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The Yellow Pages loves waste: how they fight the “opt-out movement”

September 30, 2008

Following up his excellent mission to return an unrequested phone book to Verizon, Ed Kohler published a Yellow Pages slideshow called “Dealing With the Opt-Out Movement” (PDF). In the slideshow, the Yellow Pages catalogs their “wins” in preventing states from allowing consumers to opt out of receiving the phone book.
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Stop phone book spam

September 16, 2008

There are few things I hate more than spam and junk mail. And of all the spam I get, the phone book is the worst. Nobody uses it, but Qwest, Verizon, YellowBook, and whoever else insist on tossing it into my front yard twice a year so they can inflate their circulation numbers.
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