[10587] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Information Law Alert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Voorhees)
Sun Feb 27 18:03:28 1994
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 02:56:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Voorhees <markvoor@phantom.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Glenn,
You are a most curious fellow.
I offered people a *free* trial subscription to Information Law Alert, a
print newsletter, and Information Express, an e-mail dispatch service.
Many, many people took up the offer.
You were the only person to object to my request that trial
subscribers provide a brief reason why the subscription would be useful.
My sole reason for the request is I don't feel like wasting their
time or my money (on postage stamps and printing). A similar offer on
net-happenings generated responses from the most unlikely of sources.
You want to look the gift horse in the mouth by demanding to know my
credentials and experience. That's okay. There is one in every crowd.
But it was sort of tacky to make public my private response to you.
There is another thing I find tacky: posts in which the writer blows his
or her own horn. That was the main reason I didn't provide my
credentials originally.
And I am not going to now. But if any enquiring minds, other than
Glenn's, needs to know, just drop me a message, and I will gladly respond
privately with my name, rank, and serial #.
Mark Voorhees
(no relation to Jason)
When I respond to you privately, you make my response public.
