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I have to add a little more to the discussion.  At the beginning of last
year, the university purchased a bunch of Macs.  They filled out the
registration cards for all of them and sent them in to Apple.  For some
reason, someone put my name on about 20 of them.

At the botton of these registration cards is a little box that if checked
entitles you to two free issues of MacWorld.  Well, they checked this box
on all 100 cards.

Luckily by the time these magazines started coming I had moved on to my
current job, so I didn't have to bring up the mail these two months --
100 MacWorld magazines is a little much to carry at one time.

The people around to sort the mail didn't know why these were coming, but
since 20 of them had my name on them, they forwarded them to me.  Fine
and dandy (even though I already had my own subscription -- it was fun
giving the copies away).

Then a couple of months later, I started getting all of these collection
notices (to my old work address) which were forwarded on to me.  I trashed
all of them after several calls to MacWorld.  Needless to say, I wasn't
very pleased.

I haven't heard anything else from them since (except for renewal offers
on my real subscription) so I've been happy for a while.

-Michael

p.s.  Rates up there with MacUser's offer that I received 1 month after I
      started my subscription to their magazine.  If I renewed then for
      another year, they would give me an additional $1 off, since that is
      the amount of money that they would save by not repeatedly sending
      me renewal notices.  I considered it, if only to prevent more junk
      mail...


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Michael Niehaus        UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas
Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)