Hello Bob!



 PE>> A prude to think that you are so important that having your

 PE>> name on mailing lists is a breach of national security.



 AW>> Prude is the wrong word. Narcissistic is more apt.



 BL>          are you and Paul trying to outdo yourselves murdering English

 BL> with the use of inappropriate words? Prudish or Narcissistic to worry

 BL> about lists? Sheesh!



Granted I don't like the Poms very much, but I'm not about to resort to

murder to prove it.



 BL>   I refer you to Catch-22 and Yossarian's attitude to the Germans,



Thanks for the referral. I must watch the movie or read the novel at

some stage.



 BL> who were trying to kill him. When told that it was nothing personal,

 BL> and that the Germans were not trying to kill him in particular, he

 BL> pointed to the bullet holes in the aeroplane, right near where he

 BL> sat. I agree with Yossarian; the bloody Germans were trying to kill

 BL> him! I take it personally too, when I open a bank account and get

 BL> junk mail trying to sell me bottles of wine. I always go back and

 BL> close the bank account.



You're going overboard here. Shortly you won't have a bank account (or

building society account) at all. Even St George now send junk mail to

account holders. They're attempting to flog off their life insurance or

some such thing. I'd prefer a wine catalogue to a brochure reminding me

of my mortality anyway.



 BL>   I had a survey from Citibank saying that I did not have to answer

 BL> if I thought it intruded on my privacy. I wrote them a letter saying

 BL> that I considered it an intrusion on my privacy to ask if I thought if

 BL> it was an intrusion on my privacy - and closed the account.



Way overboard. Narcissistic may well have been the wrong word to use.

How does thin-skinned sound? That would also explain your previous

irritation at the personality profile.



 AW>> But there's nothing wrong with Bob's attitude anyway - everyone

 AW>> thinks they're the most important person in the world and the

 AW>> centre of the universe. Paranoia may come into it as well.



 BL> I don't think i am the most important person in the Universe. In

 BL> fact I know I am not. It is just that I can't see why I should let my

 BL> name be bandied about on lists for someone else's profit. I have had

 BL> an example of that already, with Raymond J. Lawrence the famous

 BL> criminal being confused with me on the Police computer database.



I don't think being sent wine catalogues will lead to being arrested

after a mistaken identity.



 BL>   The best advice I ever heard is given to boxers before every fight:

 BL> "Punch clean, break when I say... AND PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL
TIMES."



I'm surprised you even drive a car then, as it's surely too much of a

risk for ;-) I'll bet you're one of those people that really enjoy

those windscreen washers that come up to you at traffic lights for an

unsolicited clean.



 BL>   It is not paranoid to take sensible precautions.



I still can't see how being sent a wine catalogue from the bank will

lead to risks such as being arrested or worse. IMO the worst thing that

could happen is that they (junk mail senders) could get the pips with

you returning to sender all unsolicited mail, and someone in a position

of power could damage your credit rating.





Regards, Alan



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