Here at Harvey Mudd, back in the Bad Old Days, we foolishly purchased a PR1ME, but once we'd seen the error of our ways, we managed to rid ourselves of the damned thing. We subsequently asked various software and hardware vendors if they would please take us off their mailing lists, as we no longer owned the machine in question. It took a few rounds of asking at some places, because these companies are always loathe to delete you from their databases... Well, someone fairly clueless at one of these companies must have eventually ended up sitting in front of a computer with our request in his or her hand, because we recently received a solicitation addressed as follows: HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE DO NOT CALL/WRITE THIS CUSTOMER 260 E. FOOTHILL BLVD. CLAREMONT, CA 91711 The truly scary part was that the mailing was not from a company that we had ever heard from before. Yet another good reason not to buy other people's mailing lists...
(From the "Rest" of RHF)