jducoeur

Not only are they annoying, but they're chewing up the money that should have been going to the cause itself and spending it on postal spam instead. I pipe the stuff to /dev/null and don't repeat the mistake of contributing to them. I've found that for every class of charity out there, there are bunches of competing players. So if I want to give money to $cause and $charity_in_cause has annoyed me, I'll just give it to a different organization instead. Once you're on the mailing list you hear from them anyway, so I don't have to look for 'em -- just wait for something to show up and then do due dilligence on the new guys.