spending where it is worth it

A while ago, I wrote the NRA a nice little email concerning their email and carbon-mail spamming tactics when it comes to getting people to renew their memberships, and I requested that they take the money they would otherwise have spent spamming me, and instead apply it to something acutally… you know… useful.
Assuming the low-grade minions who received that email ever passed it on to anyone with actual power in the organization, I guess the statute of limitations on that request has expired, given that Mr. Holder did make it to be the country’s Attorney General, and given that I just received the below email, with the title line of “Did You Get My Last E-Mail?”:

Dear [NAME],

I recently sent you an e-mail to alert you that your NRA membership is about to expire. If you’ve recently renewed your membership, please accept my heartfelt thanks. If not, please renew your membership today!

To renew, simply click here to pay your membership dues, confirm your magazine selection and take advantage of our $2 discount for renewing online today.

With our Second Amendment rights on the line in the 2008 elections, it’s critically important that leading NRA members like you send a message to politicians in every corner of the country that every NRA member stands ready to defend our freedoms. Your personal renewal commitment in 2008 sends that message loud and clear.

And, NRA membership gives you great benefits you can’t get anywhere else…

Yadda yadda frickin’ yadda. My membership expires in August… August!… and the NRA has already been spamming me to renew it for the past three months. Because that is an absolutely fantastic way for them to be spending money these days…
I went ahead and responded with the below email, but the “reply-to” of their spam no doubt went to a general-purpose circular filing bin. If anyone has Wayne’s direct email (or even something that will end up at his secretary’s desk), I will be more than happy to foward it on to him.

Dear Wayne,

I did, indeed, receive your email.

I noted, however, that it came *after* my email requesting that the
NRA take the money it would save by not sending me email and snailmail
renewal notices, and use that money to actually do something
constructive.

Snailmail is not getting any cheaper these days (especially with
postage going up), and even emails have a cost to them. Trust me, I
will not somehow forget to renew my membership if you do not
constantly remind me – my NRA membership expires this coming August,
and I will start my consideration of whether or not I will renew it in
July. Constantly spamming me, after my request that you save your
money and stop, will factor very poorly in that consideration.

Sincerely,
[NAME].

Believe you me, if the NRA successfully spams me to the point of annoyance, I will not send them another red cent, nor will I feel bad about it. After all, why would I waste my membership and donation monies on an organization that simply squanders it by paying to send me pointless pleas for more money (wait, that is starting to sound like the federal government…), especially after I already told them to bugger off?
I hear the Second Amendment Foundation needs members. Maybe they do not pointlessly spam…