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| Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239424] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 13:58  |
Otterwan
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Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful.
1977 Birchaven, Lynnwood WA - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us."
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| Re: Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239426 is a reply to message #239425] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 14:08  |
Otterwan
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I should have said I don't know the actual source, just the flood coincides with my signing up, and their websites do not seem to have an opt out option.
Perhaps you are correct about new members. It's only been a couple months since I joined. Perhaps it will slow or stop with time.
1977 Birchaven, Lynnwood WA - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us."
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| Re: Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239436 is a reply to message #239424] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 16:28 |
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| Otterwan wrote on Mon, 10 February 2014 14:58 |
Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful.
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I've never had a problem with junk mail from GMCMI or FMCA. Good Sam, on the other hand, is the ultimate spammer, both electronic and especially through snail mail.
Thanks,
Jeremy Knezek
1976 Glenbrook
Birmingham, AL
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| Re: Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239438 is a reply to message #239436] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 16:34 |
Ken Burton
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| jknezek wrote on Mon, 10 February 2014 16:28 |
| Otterwan wrote on Mon, 10 February 2014 14:58 |
Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful.
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I've never had a problem with junk mail from GMCMI or FMCA. Good Sam, on the other hand, is the ultimate spammer, both electronic and especially through snail mail.
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Same here.
Give FMCA a phone call and see what is up. I doubt it is GMCMI.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239448 is a reply to message #239426] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 17:41 |
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David,
GMCMI does not send out junk mail. I have never received excessive junk mail from FMCA, they do send out information on the upcoming rallies, actives and benefits that you are getting with your membership.
J.R. Wright
30' Buskirk Stretch
Michigan
On Location in Tucson
On Feb 10, 2014, at 1:08 PM, David Orders <dao@oarsllc.com> wrote:
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> I should have said I don't know the actual source, just the flood coincides with my signing up, and their websites do not seem to have an opt out option.
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> Perhaps you are correct about new members. It's only been a couple months since I joined. Perhaps it will slow or stop with time.
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> 1976 Royale "Twinkie II", 1978 Palm Beach with front end fire. Lynnwood WA - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us."
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239451 is a reply to message #239424] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 18:00 |
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They're making money on it or they wouldn't be doing it. Anything that reduces dues or holds them constant is cool with me. They don't come close to the number of insurance offers I get. Credit cards have tapered off though. And those two - to which I belong - don't combined hold a candle to AARP, to which I don't belong. It's all fireplace kindling anyway.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
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From: David Orders <dao@oarsllc.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 2:58 PM
Subject: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI
Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239459 is a reply to message #239454] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 18:33 |
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> On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Matt Colie <matt7323tze@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Otterwan wrote on Mon, 10 February 2014 14:58
>> Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful
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> Dave,
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> I have an interesting thing I have done for years. Different organizations get different addresses. Form this I know that GMCMI does not sell that roster to anybody at all - ever. FMCA did sell an address list to Good Sam or Camping World one time. All the other things from FMCA come from FMCA. They keep offering to insure my coach at its current replacement value, but every time I call them, they seem to have a problem..... Other than the GSCW-BS that is about it.
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> I really used to appreciate JC Whitless when we had to heat on the wood stove. There was always a new kindling in the mail.
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> Matt
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239465 is a reply to message #239463] |
Mon, 10 February 2014 19:13 |
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Emery - This is real mail, not e-mail. I think we have determined that FMCA is the likely source, and that it may be a new member thing that goes away with time. - Dave
1977 Birchaven, Lynnwood WA - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us."
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239494 is a reply to message #239465] |
Tue, 11 February 2014 01:47 |
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Having served on the International board for several years, I know our
policy.
The membership list is never sold or given to soliciters
Fmca might sell their list.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM, David Orders <dao@oarsllc.com> wrote:
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> Emery - This is real mail, not e-mail. I think we have determined that
> FMCA is the likely source, and that it may be a new member thing that goes
> away with time. - Dave
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> 1976 Royale "Twinkie II", 1978 Palm Beach with front end fire. Lynnwood WA
> - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we
> treat one another is entirely up to us."
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239495 is a reply to message #239424] |
Tue, 11 February 2014 02:35 |
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David,
> Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful.
as the mail list archive is publicly available, the email addresses can
easily be parsed from there. That could be a reason. I couldn't find
your address in it, though.
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the internet company
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239498 is a reply to message #239495] |
Tue, 11 February 2014 03:58 |
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| Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote on Tue, 11 February 2014 02:35 |
David,
> Since joining the above my mailbox has been flooded with offers that I don't need or want. I really don't care and just recycle them, but is there any way to opt out of their marketing programs, or it that just the price you pay for joining? Just seems wasteful.
as the mail list archive is publicly available, the email addresses can
easily be parsed from there. That could be a reason. I couldn't find
your address in it, though.
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Peer Oliver Schmidt
the internet company
PGP Key ID: 0x83E1C2EA
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I doubt that is it. Someone published my address in plain text last year and I'm slowly recovering from that. I normally get 3 to 6 emails per day. My record in late December was 187. I have been solicited for everything imaginable. Very few things were even remotely associated with RV's. Of course I have also had the phishing and Nigerian money scams.
The number is now down below 100 per day and slowly dropping. I have had this happen before and it becomes manageable after about 3 months. After about 5 months the SPAM disappears.
Based on the above I doubt that is how you got on anyone's list. I have not seen an increase in snail mail solicitations. I do stand by the garbage can as I go through incoming snail mail. I use to dump them direct into the fireplace. I wish they would mail me logs instead of paper. I would go back to using the fireplace again.
Current temp is -9 here.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] Bulk mail from FMCA and GMCMI [message #239914 is a reply to message #239426] |
Thu, 13 February 2014 18:13 |
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FMCA and GMCMI aren't the source. Nor do these organizations sell their
lists. It may be a coincidence.
If you get something from FMCA it will say FMCA. For the first two months
you may get email but it will settle down after that. I'm talking maybe
one every ten days.
Byron Songer
Louisville, KY
ATTENTION: This reply is in reference to what is provided belowŠ
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>I should have said I don't know the actual source, just the flood
>coincides with my signing up, and their websites do not seem to have an
>opt out option.
>
>Perhaps you are correct about new members. It's only been a couple months
>since I joined. Perhaps it will slow or stop with time.
>--
>1976 Royale "Twinkie II", 1978 Palm Beach with front end fire. Lynnwood
>WA - "We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that
>how we treat one another is entirely up to us."
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