[9475] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Jan 6 17:48:28 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:47:31 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: crocker@tis.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Stephen D Crocker's message of Thu, 06 Jan 94 17:26:51 -0500 <9401062227.AA22518@tis.com>
Actually, what this all points out is a value of public access sites.
What the mailing list seller got was exactly nothing of value. That's
why all the catalogues showed up here, they didn't have any addresses
etc. I wonder how many were addressed to names like "batman" or
"zorro"?
I doubt there's a lot one can do to prevent this sort of thing other
than it obviously doesn't work very well (I doubt Inmac is real happy
about having sent several hundred catalogues to our address which are
all headed towards the trashbin unless they want to come and pick them
up.)
-Barry Shein
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