I just received an interesting email, dealing with a long-ago post here about turning off Capitol One credit-card solicitations:

Hello. I found your contact information in reference to the W3C, but I am writing about the 11/19/01 entry in your blog. You wrote that you called Capitol One at 1-888-817-2970 to opt out of receiving solicitations, ending “…and if I’m lucky, I’ll be off their damn list in two more days.”

Did it work?

For the last two months or so, my husband and I have been receiving mail from Capitol One and like you I am tired of shredding. I found the same number of their web site, but I’ve been afraid to try it, lest I end up on their telemarketing list instead. (I found your blog by googling the phone number.)

Would appreciate learning the result of your call.

I guess it must have worked, because I can’t remember the last time I got a solicitation from Capitol One.

Now, if I could find a way to get the airlines I use to stop soliciting me for their cards….

…and many people doubted those VPs’ qualifications to succeed, too, hence the almost amusing joke that they were their President’s life insurance policies.

But given McCain’s health, the odds of the country’s having to cash in his policy are far too high to take any chance of letting Sarah Palin near the Oval Office, let alone the button.

I wish John McCain a long and happy life, but I’m not willing to gamble my country’s future on it.

(As always, IBM has its opinions and plans; I have mine. Any resemblance between the two is coincidental.)