[9505] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Jan 7 00:50:05 1994
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 23:55:54 EST
From: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
On Thu, 6 Jan 1994 15:38:51 -0600 (CST), "Sean Donelan" <SEAN@sdg.dra.com> wrote:
> >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.
>
> There's a company that was advertising the November "Advertising Age"
> address lists of Internet users broken down by interest (newsgroups?).
> Claimed to be able to deliever "thousands" of address every day. Probally
> just took the domain name and looked it up in the WHOIS database for
> the street address.
Then they are way stupid. I have accounts on several machines that
are on the Internet, but no way would the mail room people know who I
was.
Let me reiterate: you have more money than brains if you buy one of
these mailing lists.
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