Finally... a way to eliminate the annual arrival of those dinosaur Yellow Pages.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/ allows you to opt out* of receiving enormous wastes of paper that were useful prior to 1989.  Click it.  USE IT.

www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org

* A non-binding petition is submitted to the local Yellow Pages distribution machine

Comments

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I don't trust giving yet another company/org my address.

They say they aren't going to sell it off.

There's no way to prove they haven't done so.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

"There's no way to prove they haven't done so."

Incorrect. If there's one thing that's more common on the internet than sites scamming for addresses, it's users complaining about those sites. And a simple g00gle search for yellowpagesgoesgreen.org shows a plethora of positive feedback and links from established third party green organizations.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

And have any of those people doing the positive feedback used trick names to prove whether or not the org sold their names off?

Like I said - there's no way to be sure they haven't sold you name off.

Do YOU know which companies you order things from or give your info to, have sold off their data?

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

actually, whenever my father has to give his name, email, etc for a new thing, he will use a different title or suffix, or transpose a few of the letters, use a different middle initial, etc. this way he knows when he starts getting things sent to certain names, where they got the info.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I have thought of that, and I had heard of it, for example, giving a name as John LL Smith, when ordering from LL Bean.