"No deed goes unrewarded."Send AOL 1 Million Sign-Up CDs.
Every now and then that phrase comes to mind when I hear about something, and nothing could be closer to the truth when I heard today that two guys, Jim McKenna and John Lieberman from El Cerrito, CA are fed up with AOL's constant CD mailings. (Who isn't?)They are attempting to collect 1 million AOL CD's and returning them to AOL's corporate HQ in Vienna, VA to personally tell AOL to stop sending them.
They've even set up a website with pictures to show the growing heap of unwanted and unnecessary CD's. This is music to my sick little ears. And I'm seriously considering adopting these guys! Let's help 'em out!
Send your unwanted and unrequested AOL CD's to: NO MORE AOL CDs!, 1601 Navellier Street, El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA
Why? Because several years ago a when AOL was bought CompuServe a group of Forum Operators told the new AOL management team about the NUMEROUS complaints we were getting from members about the large number of AOL CD's loyal CompuServe members were getting in the mail from CompuServe's targeted membership lists. Members were ticked, to put it politely, about the diskettes and CD's they were recieving. CIS Management to our surprise were defensive about rocking the boat and moving the message upstream in the corporate ladder. We were all puzzled until we found out that our new CompuServe President, Audrey Weil, was the person who had "invented the AOL sign-up program!"
In muffled voices the staff referred to the AOL sign-up program and Weil's, the former PR person as the "CD Carpet Bombing Queen of AOL" by the staff. Audrey justly deserved the title, as she single handedly put CD's, (and previously diskettes,) in the hands of every household in America with a pulse and a credit card. It might be rightly said, Weil's helped put more CD's into the landfills of the world than any other corporate exec in history.
Recently Weil's resigned as President of AOL Broadband, the title she got after she gutted left CompuServe. Too bad, otherwise I'd have suggested another address to deliver the unwanted AOL CD's.
Byting the Hand That Feeds Me: I Want to Adopt the Guys Who Are Collecting 1 Million CDs to Send AOL a Message
