Branko sez,
Everybody in the Netherlands still receives the paper phone guide once every year, whether they want to or not, even though in these days of Google and the Internet it is nothing but a vehicle for advertisements.
To help stop this form of harassment, a guy called Alexander Kl?pping has registered a URL called sterftelefoongidssterf.nl (diephonebookdie) which redirects to the phone book cancellation form. In other words, if you want the phone book to be eliminated (?die?) from your life, follow that link. (Actually don?t follow it, De Telefoongids are known to ignore your cancellation request anyway.)
Last Monday Kl?pping received a threatening e-mail by the publishers of the phone book, a subsidiary of European Directories, that tells him he is engaged in trademark violation and that he must cease and desist.
Phone book publisher tries to silence critic with legal bullying (Thanks, Branko!)
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