[22305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SPAM from NetScape and AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne)
Tue Dec 22 13:44:29 1998
In-Reply-To: <199812221515.JAA21341@us.networkcs.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:34:20 -0800
To: Tim Salo <salo@networkcs.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Wayne <wayne@domain.net>
At 9:15 AM -0600 12/22/98, Tim Salo wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:23:42 -0700
>> To: nanog@merit.edu
>> From: "John M. Brown" <jmbrown@ihighway.net>
>> Subject: SPAM from NetScape and AOL
>> [...]
>> Looks like NetCenter just got a mailing list from AOL and there
>> AOL Chat app.
>>
>> Thanks AOL for violating my privacy request,
>> Thanks NetScape for sending me SPAM.
>> [...]
>
> I don't know how things really work under the covers, but your screen name
> is visible to anyone in the AOL chat room as soon as you enter the room.
> Do you have some evidence that it was AOL, and not merely some AOL user,
> (or user's bot) that collected your AOL screen name?
>
> -tjs
I doubt that John Brown even has an AOL account.
I assume what happened is that he gave them his email address on one
of their web sites and they decided it made a good entry into the
database they send "marketing opportunities" to? :-)
