The following is posted for my husband, , 'cause he says no one reads his journal. Well, I say, no one POSTS in that journal, either, now, hmm??

Well, the straw the broke the camel's back came today. I got another newsletter from Barnes & Noble that was web bugged. Plain and simple, I'm not going to take it from companies that think they can gather information on me without my explicit permission.

The following is my letter to them, to the newsletter comments, investor relations, E-mail according to Yahoo! finance, and a guess at the President's address


Due to the sleazy marketing tactics used by Barnes&Noble, you have lost a
customer, both online & offline. Since I know I can not trust the online
company, I have no reason to believe I can trust the offline one either.





What do you do? Simple. Your newsletters are web bugged (see
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/resources/webbug.asp). I did not and will
not consent to being profiled without my express permission, something you
are doing with these bugs. These bugs are nowhere addressed in your privacy
policy. I dislike the bugging of links, but tolerate it since it does
require my action to activate a link. Web bugs DO NOT require my permission
and such techniques I will not tolerate.




I have terminated my dealings with other companies that use web bugs, and I
am not going to make an exception for you. Please remove all information
from your systems regarding the e-mail address [my e-mail] , as
well as terminate all subscriptions to all newsletters to that address. Any
further newsletters received after one week from today will be viewed as UCE
(spam), and reported as such to the appropriate internet providers.




Robert Myers
[my address]




(*FORMERLY* frequented Barnes & Noble at [local B&N])