[11792] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
more about the "green card bandits"...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Wed Apr 20 00:47:59 1994
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 19:38:49 -0800
To: com-priv <com-priv@psi.com>
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 20:25:12 -0400
>Sender: cni-modernization@cni.org
>From: Miriam Jaffe <mjaffe@trout.ab.umd.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-modernization@cni.org>
>Subject: Re: What we can do About mass E-mail
>
>On Tue, 19 Apr 1994, Charles Pearce wrote:
>>
>> If this is in reference to the Green Card Lottery that was all over the
>> USENET last week, I would be willing to bet that the offenders won't do
>> it again, judging from the flames that it generated.
>
>
>Not only does he intend to do it again, but he was so pleased with
>the results of his advertisement (number of client inquiries) that
>he intends to write a book on "how to advertise on the internet,"
>according to a front-page-of-the-business-section article in the
>_New York Times_ this morning (big, and above the fold!). He'd
>already done similar things from netcom and from another service
>provider.
>
>And, apropos of the previous post, yes, the service provider he was
>using this time was blown out of the water repeatedly by the volume
>of negative mail the lawyer received.
>
>Miriam
>
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