Two fed-up promo CD recipients to return a million CDs to AOL

By at 7:47 am Monday, Nov 11

Hey, AOL, you've got mail! Two California men have organized a global campaign to return one million of those annoying promotional CDs back to America Online.
"People find this action very cool and the ecology aspect is very loved in France," said Aziz Ridouan of Stop CD France, which has accumulated about 1,600 CDs for the men so far.

[International campaign organizers Jim] McKenna and [John] Lieberman say they have nothing against AOL, but see the discs as a waste of resources and have found a creative way to ask the Internet giant to stop making and sending them.

AOL is responding by offering to help.

"If they reach their goal ... I'd be happy to give them directions and greet them at the door," company spokesman Nicholas Graham said. "We would make a contribution ourselves to put them over the top."

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