[9472] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Jan 6 17:32:03 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:30:42 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: SEAN@sdg.dra.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Sean Donelan's message of Thu, 6 Jan 1994 15:38:51 -0600 (CST) <940106153851.3042@SDG.DRA.COM>
>From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
>Perhaps Inmac should start doing some sanity checks on their mailing
>lists. 300 new names for the same address should have raised flags
>somewhere.
This occurred to me but then it occurred to me that Inmac will
wallpaper every employee at a company with their catalogs so 300 new
names at one corporate address probably wouldn't raise any flags for
them, it probably happens frequently. What they would need is some
kind of corporate DB that lists approximate number of employees or
some such thing to cross-check against. They're available, not even
very expensive.
>There seems to suddenly be a lot of "Internet Experts" going around. I
>have a feeling that we're going to be hearing stories about a lot of folks
>that get taken by "Internet con-men." I just hope the word Internet
>doesn't get as abused by the media like "hacker" did, but somehow I doubt
>it.
As with the hacker thing nothing sells news like outraging the public,
every professional mass-media journalist knows that.
-Barry Shein
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