[49249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Wed Jun 26 21:32:01 2002
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauislanwanman.com>,
"Rizzo Frank" <frank.rizzo@ghettocolo.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:30:43 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauislanwanman.com>
> Your proprietary information is on someone else's server and it's up to
> them not to 'use' it.
There are IM products which a company can set up internally for exactly this
reason. For public IM servers, you're not obligated to give "proprietary
information" other than your email address.
> PSTN doesn't keep your info on a server or backed up somewhere.
I'm quite sure the telco has records of who I am and where I live, and they
"use" that information on a regular basis to bill me. They also sell the
information to others and a variety of other things they're allowed to do by
law. Yahoo and AOL are benign by comparison.
S
