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Classy variation on the double postcard.


Progressive Business Publications is in the mail right now offering prospects "4 trial issues risk-free" of the Internet Marketing See Internet advertising.  Report. Rather than a forced free trial, it's an invitation to receive free issues.

And what an invitation it is! Added to the usual dimensions of a double postcard is a 3.5-inch flap The communications protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). FLAP runs over TCP/IP and provides the header format for transmitting IM commands and data. It includes the SNAC data type, which is the primary data structure transmitted between clients and servers. See OSCAR.

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 folded over the top above the address field. It carries the indicia Signs; indications. Circumstances that point to the existence of a given fact as probable, but not certain. For example, indicia of partnership are any circumstances which would induce the belief that a given person was in reality, though not technically, a member of a given  and these words in red, "Please accept our invitation ..."

And it's sealed with a glossy gold wafer.

The back of the unopened postcard carries only the return address, making the entire carrier as least commercial as possible. In fact, it's easy to think it might be an invitation to a financial advisor's seminar or some such event.

The reply is simple enough: once the flap is opened, under it is the "order form" above the address. All that's asked is to check "Yes" and scribble scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core.  next to "Your initials please."
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Publication:The Newsletter on Newsletters
Date:Dec 31, 2004
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