Former GUNS N' ROSES star Duff Mckagan has made a New Year's resolution to fight back against junk mail, spam and sales calls in 2011.
The rocker admits that although he has "never been real big" on making an annual to-do list, he has decided to spent the next 12 months battling the "plague" that has beset his email inbox.
And he also wants to make sure his phone stops ringing with cold calls.
In his column for Seattle Weekly, he writes, "I have never been real big on New Year's resolutions... It goes without saying that I no longer have booze and drugs to swear off. But there are one or two things I am finally going to rectify after the first of the year... the things that perhaps plague us all: junk e-mail and sales calls...
"These days - and every business day - I get sales calls at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. You know the ones... The emails, on the other hand, are indeed from things that I have over the years used, or people I have given my email to...
"I have learned not to give out my email address when I go to stores, though. That is a whole other conundrum in itself. I know that neither of these two above-mentioned things are all that bad in the whole scope of things - and they are indeed not - but I have made a promise to myself to 'unsubscribe' to the sales emails, send a note back to the club promoters to take me off the list (probably a D list, anyway), and call back these 800 numbers and have a supervisor take me off the call list!... Happy New Year's, all!"