[9456] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Ilacqua)
Thu Jan 6 12:36:05 1994
From: spike@coke.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:35:14 GMT
To: com-priv@psi.com
As you may know the World is a Public Access Inetnet site. It
seems that someone has be fingering "world.std.com" to collect the
names of people logged in, assuming that they are employees of
Software Tool & Die. They have then used these names to build a
mailing list. So far we have received more than 300 Inmac catalogs,
addressed with our customer's names and our mailing address.
I believe Inmac themselves collected the names, but I've yet
to confirm this.
Maybe this is what can expect in the future, but frankly I
think it sucks.
->Spike
