[9459] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Thu Jan 6 13:29:47 1994
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: spike@coke.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 13:30:23 -0500 (EST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <SPIKE.94Jan6123514@coke.std.com> from "Joe Ilacqua" at Jan 6, 94 05:35:14 pm
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>
> 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
Boy, is that dumb to not strip out one of the largest public systems...
Oh well, I'd either call Inmac and offer to sell them back at $.50-$1
a piece or call the local recycling center....
sdw
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