Comments on: How to Unsubscribe from the Yellow Pages http://www.thedeets.com/2008/06/16/how-to-unsubscribe-from-the-yellow-pages/ Consistently against torture. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ed Kohler http://www.thedeets.com/2008/06/16/how-to-unsubscribe-from-the-yellow-pages/#comment-35914 Ed Kohler Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:18:47 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/?p=2027#comment-35914 @Julia, I don't think it would be very difficult to create a system where people could opt-in without using the internet. For example, yellow pages could include opt-in postcards stuck to the cover of the next phone books they spam indiscriminately. Anyone who actually brought the phone book into their home would see the postcard and could simply write their address on it and stick it in the mail if they wanted continued deliveries. Done. Problem solved. No internet needed. @Julia, I don’t think it would be very difficult to create a system where people could opt-in without using the internet. For example, yellow pages could include opt-in postcards stuck to the cover of the next phone books they spam indiscriminately. Anyone who actually brought the phone book into their home would see the postcard and could simply write their address on it and stick it in the mail if they wanted continued deliveries. Done. Problem solved. No internet needed.

]]> By: Julia http://www.thedeets.com/2008/06/16/how-to-unsubscribe-from-the-yellow-pages/#comment-35913 Julia Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:04:59 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/?p=2027#comment-35913 You're missing the point -- you cannot have an opt-in system, because while I personally find the yellow pages to be outdated, there are still millions of homes in the USA without internet. How exactly should those people, relatively but off, opt-in? The yellow pages, while a ginormous waste of paper, DOES keep people connected who otherwise would be cut off. Opt-out should just be better-publicized. You’re missing the point — you cannot have an opt-in system, because while I personally find the yellow pages to be outdated, there are still millions of homes in the USA without internet. How exactly should those people, relatively but off, opt-in? The yellow pages, while a ginormous waste of paper, DOES keep people connected who otherwise would be cut off. Opt-out should just be better-publicized.

]]> By: The Yellow Pages Hates Being Held Accountable for Its Talk | The Deets http://www.thedeets.com/2008/06/16/how-to-unsubscribe-from-the-yellow-pages/#comment-19121 The Yellow Pages Hates Being Held Accountable for Its Talk | The Deets Thu, 06 May 2010 13:01:35 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/?p=2027#comment-19121 [...] constituents who are saying, “Could you do something about all of this yellow pages waste? I’ve called the companies to tell them to stop delivering their directories to me, but they don’t seem to be honoring [...] [...] constituents who are saying, “Could you do something about all of this yellow pages waste? I’ve called the companies to tell them to stop delivering their directories to me, but they don’t seem to be honoring [...]

]]> By: David http://www.thedeets.com/2008/06/16/how-to-unsubscribe-from-the-yellow-pages/#comment-19063 David Sat, 01 May 2010 00:36:13 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/?p=2027#comment-19063 Thanks for posting this. I just got my phone books in the mail today, and spent about 20-30m going to their site, searching around for ways of being removed from their service. I used the link you provided at the bottom of the page to help. Reading some of the comments by Ken, and I understand his position to a degree. I don't feel that these should be banned from existence, but really here's the crux of the matter. If I don't open the books (which I rarely do - I think I opened a phone book, for the local police, once in the last 4 years), and I use the internet, why do I need these books? Usually I tend to leave them in their plastic bag and toss them immediately into the recycle bin. For those people who use it, fantastic, please keep doing it. For me, it's so much faster to type in the business name into google and my city and have it give me all local businesses with that name. It takes me far less time to do that, plus I get directions to the place in question. If I went by the yellow pages, I'd have to find the place/address, and likely look up in the maps how to get there. Given I don't know these roads well, even after 4+ years living here, it's better just to have google maps for that even. It's part eco for me, but it's really mostly just what's most convenient and simple. Thanks for posting this.

I just got my phone books in the mail today, and spent about 20-30m going to their site, searching around for ways of being removed from their service. I used the link you provided at the bottom of the page to help.

Reading some of the comments by Ken, and I understand his position to a degree. I don’t feel that these should be banned from existence, but really here’s the crux of the matter. If I don’t open the books (which I rarely do – I think I opened a phone book, for the local police, once in the last 4 years), and I use the internet, why do I need these books? Usually I tend to leave them in their plastic bag and toss them immediately into the recycle bin. For those people who use it, fantastic, please keep doing it. For me, it’s so much faster to type in the business name into google and my city and have it give me all local businesses with that name. It takes me far less time to do that, plus I get directions to the place in question. If I went by the yellow pages, I’d have to find the place/address, and likely look up in the maps how to get there. Given I don’t know these roads well, even after 4+ years living here, it’s better just to have google maps for that even.

It’s part eco for me, but it’s really mostly just what’s most convenient and simple.

]]> By: Can’t Stop CanPages Phonebook Delivery at SMOjoe.com http://www.thedeets.com/2008/06/16/how-to-unsubscribe-from-the-yellow-pages/#comment-17745 Can’t Stop CanPages Phonebook Delivery at SMOjoe.com Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:45:14 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/?p=2027#comment-17745 [...] that, just know that I’ve seen and read all your tricks, and I enjoyed the battle between activitist Ed Kohler and your own PR bot KenC.  And Ed Kohler also has a Facebook group, Wasteful Unwanted Phonebook Action Super Society. But [...] [...] that, just know that I’ve seen and read all your tricks, and I enjoyed the battle between activitist Ed Kohler and your own PR bot KenC.  And Ed Kohler also has a Facebook group, Wasteful Unwanted Phonebook Action Super Society. But [...]

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