The right number of emails

Since signing up for Komen.org and giving some money to the cause, I have only received one additional email from them.  I must think this is a calculated move, and I really appreciate it.   I care enough about the topic to give money, and I can go to the site when I like.  I don’t need to be assaulted with emails.

The DNC takes the opposite approach.  I gave money to pol running for Senate a few years ago, and ever since have been triangulated by the DNC multiple times a week.  I get emails from Biden, Obama, Kerry, you name it.  Leave me alone please.

In a similar experience, my wife gave to the Southern Poverty Law Center a few years ago, and that proved to be a big mistake.  Ever since, our home has become the repository for dead trees.  We get so much mail from SPLC and other organizations like it, that whatever she initially gave certainly has been for a net loss for SPLC in the cost of all the mail we have gotten since then.