[9465] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Jan 6 15:15:22 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 15:14:10 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: Paul.Rarey@ssf-sys.dhl.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Paul Rarey's message of Thu, 6 Jan 94 10:56:38 -0800 <9401061056.ZM16326@maverick.ssf-sys.DHL.COM>
Some notes...
>Hhhmmmm.... Seems world.std.com might need to tighten up their firewall (if one
> exists....:-)
Firewalls are irrelevant, we're a large public access system.
In fact, finger may have nothing to do with it, the culprit might have
just created an account here and listed off names, tho maybe not.
The incredibly, remarkably dumb (or fraudulent) thing is that s/he/it
took the names but added our office's address to all of them.
This would tend to point towards the finger theory, one would hope
that if the dimwit knew we were a public access system s/he/it
wouldn't've done this.
So the nuisance is that hundreds of Inmac catalogs are showing up here
at our office every day. Something over 300 came in today.
Finally, after some phone calls, it doesn't look like it was directly
Inmac's fault, but rather that someone sold them a list that contained
this information, they were able to name the source of the list. Don't
take any of this as a particular grudge against Inmac, looks like they
were a victim also.
What a nuisance tho, the poor postman!
-Barry Shein
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