[9564] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Mon Jan 10 23:54:04 1994
From: lyndon@world.std.com (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 04:53:26 GMT
To: com-priv@psi.com
Stephen D Crocker <crocker@tis.com> writes:
>The policy question: with respect to harvesting of names from Internet
>databases, finger, etc., if you could have the policy of your choice,
>what would it be?
Looking at it in an overall context I don't see how someone fingering
our site and building a database would be doing anything different than
if they requested a copy of our campus directory and mass mailed everyone
in that instead. Sites already have the option of disabling finger, whois, and
friends if they so desire.
If people like Inmac get burned like this enough times they will just
stop buying mailing lists that say anything about "internet." I hope.
Lyndon Nerenberg
U of Northern British Columbia
