Backpacker hacked me off

[CaptChaos]

I really hate it when companies sell your contact info to others. All of a sudden I started getting e-mails from companies who told me that I had signed up for their newletter, etc..

I got one today from Woolrich and I never did contact them. They at least had a link to show you where they got your data and here it is below:

Source Information for your Email Address

You have already been opted-in to the systemEmail Address:[email protected]First Name:JOHNLast Name:KNIGHTEmail Type:not specified, defaulted to MIMEAddress:158 HOUNDS RUN DRIVECity:BOWLING GREENState:KYZIP/Postal Code:42104Home Phone:xxx-xxx-xxxxDate and time signed up:January 28, 2009 at 5:48:59 AM (PST)A description of how your email address was obtained:Your e-mail address was added to this list either through our cooperation with Backpacker Magazine or Backpacker.com.Company Contact InformationEmail Address:[email protected]Phone Number:800-966-5372Mailing Address:Woolrich, Inc. c/o Customer Service 2 Mill Street Woolrich, PA 17779

I really hate it when they do this.

How do you feel about this?

[Sly]

I hate when they do that. I also hate reading privacy statements. If they don't stop sending me emails when I opt out, I set up a filter that directs their email to the spam folder.

[Gumbi]

That didn't tick me off as much as the backpacker magazine a few months ago. Neither of the two major articles had anything to do with backpacking. One article was about hunting wolves in Alaska. Midway through the magazine, I had to stop and look at the cover again to make sure I didn't accidentally pick up a National Geographic magazine. I have been pretty disappointed by their last couple of magazines. I feel like they let me down.

[ki0eh]

Whenever I order anything the e-mail I enter is (say) [email protected] and I only check that one through webmail when I know I'm ordering stuff. Or, when I have time to kill by hitting pages of delete.

[Lone Wolf]

That didn't tick me off as much as the backpacker magazine a few months ago. Neither of the two major articles had anything to do with backpacking. One article was about hunting wolves in Alaska. Midway through the magazine, I had to stop and look at the cover again to make sure I didn't accidentally pick up a National Geographic magazine. I have been pretty disappointed by their last couple of magazines. I feel like they let me down.

kinda like the ATC doing a main article in their mag about horsepacking in the Grayson Highlands

[fehchet]

Backpacker magazine does the ebb and flow for sure. I stopped getting it.

As for unsolicited emails, they all go to spam. Now my email account seldom gets any crap.

Life on the Internet.

[leeki pole]

kinda like the ATC doing a main article in their mag about horsepacking in the Grayson Highlands

I still send them a donation every year, but since they went to their new "format" I don't want their mag or membership anymore. Sold out.

[Dances with Mice]

I subscribe to different magazines in the names of our family pets. That makes it fairly easy to track where junk mail originates.

Our dog used to subscribe to "Money" magazine. He got a pre-approved credit card application. I filled it out fairly honestly and sent it back (...I put his age in dog years, I figured that was fair; occupation as security guard; he owned his own house and I estimated an income including full board and medical benefits). No bank account or SSN though and a pawprint for his signature.

Somehow they disapproved his preapproved application.

[Jack Tarlin]

Good idea, DWM. Whenever I sign up for a supermarket discount card, I use the name Fabyan J. Hensley, who happens to be Miss Janet's dog.

Sometimes he gets more mail than she does, and some of it is pretty damned amusing.

[Newb]

Backpacker Magazine should be called "Yuppy Outdoors"

[RedneckRye]

http://catalogchoice.com/

Kind of like a "no call" list for junk mail and catalogs.

I've had a gmail.com e-mail for 4 years and have had MAYBE 10 junk e-mails come thru to my regular account. They do an great job os sending spam to a separate folder.

[dradius]

good to see I'm not the only one who uses my dog's name for stuff and I agree with the main story on the wolves, etc. it also seems like a large portion is geared towards climbing mountains, which i couldn't care less about. i paid $5 or so for my initial subscription, and probably won't renew it.

btw Capt Chaos, your name and full address is included in that post. maybe you don't care, but just making sure you realize it.

[Wags]

agreed. i rarely get spam through gmail

[OldStormcrow]

Backpacker Magazine should be called "Yuppy Outdoors"

Backpacking magazine already sucks bad enough without them selling your info.....

[RockStar]

Good idea, DWM. Whenever I sign up for a supermarket discount card, I use the name Fabyan J. Hensley, who happens to be Miss Janet's dog.

Sometimes he gets more mail than she does, and some of it is pretty damned amusing.

SON OF A .... I have all the discount cards. CRAP!

[garlic08]

I just read Backpacker at the library once a month. That way I don't get too mad, since the whole county is helping me pay for it. I sure won't pay for my own subscription, it's not worth it.

[CaptChaos]

Hi dradius:

not a problem. You can look me up in the phone book here in Bowling Green, Ky anytime you want.

But thanks anyway for the info.

John

[Mags]

I think outdoor magazines in general are...fluffy. But, it is what people want.

I was thumbing through a copy of BACKCOUNTRY SKIER recently. The first 10 pages were ads...and one was for a fricken resort!

It ain't just Backpacker.

As with Garlic, I read it for free. In my case, at King Soopers.

[elangomat]

I got the same Woolrich spam today also. P'd me off. Last two issue of BP were really porr (IMO), time to let my subscription lapse and read the library copy.

[Whiskyjo]

I stopped taking Backpacking Magazine a couple of years ago because they ran and article about secret or not that well known places to camp in the South east. Of coarse two of the places my wife and I used but now they are overused trampled down mud holes.