[9461] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Thu Jan 6 14:02:07 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 13:01:10 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Joe Ilacqua's message of Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:35:14 GMT <SPIKE.94Jan6123514@coke.std.com>
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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.
Could be more annoying--they could be headhunting.
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