If only you could really Trade them...
I work in the power industry, and it's amazing how eager a lot of trade magazines are to get you on their mailing list. I must receive about 10 different ones a month, but I never read them as they are mostly ads.

However, each one calls a couple of times a year to "verify my information so they can continue to send me their fantastic magazine". Since they never ask if I actually *want* to receive it, I just agree that yes, all the information is correct, and let them continue to send me magazines that I instantly toss in the bin, happy that they spent the postage and such wasting money on me.

Inevitably, they started asking if I would prefer to receive their lovely publication through email instead of in print, and I always tell them "no", just to stick it to them.
(Jaycatt, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 23:05, 2 replies)

**** Weekly
They all seem to do it.

Computer Weekly and Electronics Weekly are ours. Though the former gets a quick chuckle at Dilbert between the two of us before it gets binned.
(Cloudane, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 0:26, closed)

We don't care if you read it.
Each mag counts as a reader and helps us sell advertising space.

Thanks! People like you keep ad salesmen like me in work... Should we ever meet I'll buy you lunch!
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Fri 18 Jun 2010, 10:08, closed)