[10418] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
A mailbox covered in Beautiful Wallpaper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Dern)
Tue Feb 22 09:30:53 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 09:29:14 -0500
From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern)
To: com-priv@psi.com
FYI, I fired off my "gently pissed off" response to Wallpapered
In Seattle, including a CC t the CIS Postmaster; however, it
looks like some of you (and other lists) start reading your mail
earlier than I do:
>From POSTMASTER@CompuServe.COM Tue Feb 22 09:02:41 1994
>Date: 22 Feb 94 08:49:04 EST
>From: Electronic Postmaster <POSTMASTER@CompuServe.COM>
>Subject: Re: ? EMDNRM - Mail Delivery Failure. No room in mailbox. 70724,377
>Re: BEAUTIFUL SEATTLE WALLPAPER
>
>Re: ? EMDNRM - Mail Delivery Failure. No room in mailbox. 70724,377
>Re: BEAUTIFUL SEATTLE WALLPAPER
...
>Dear Mr Bailo,
>
>>From where I sit, it sure looks like you have send unsolicited
>bulk mail advertising to a number of Internet mailing lists,
>notably com-priv. This is is violation of most of the rules
>for lists and AUPs for sites and users. If you were on a full
>Internet site, it's enough to get your account yanked.
>
>It's possible you did this without knowing what you've done is a
>'no-no.' So I'm giving you this polite advisory. I'm sure you've
>gotten a lot of less polite responses from other Internet users.
...
and it looks like I was right!
DPD, !author of "A Billion and One Things You Can Get Free In Cyberspace"
nor "With Kill Files, We Don't Have to Hear You Scream"
(outgoing ed of Internet World, not accepting job as new pico editor :-)
