[9567] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Tue Jan 11 10:00:08 1994
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 09:46:37 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Stephen D Crocker's message of Tue, 11 Jan 94 01:21:07 -0500 <9401110621.AA04995@tis.com>
>able to get it cease. I haven't looked at a college directory
>recently, but the directory for my kids' grade school and high school
>is also marked similarly.
At my (public) high school, we didn't *have* a directory; they weren't
allowed, because of liability problems. (OK, *I* had a directory, but
my mom was a teacher there. :-)
More recent college information (86-90): at my college (Northwestern),
we were told in the catalog that NU considered a bunch of information,
including our names, addresses & phone #s, to be public, and made it
available to third parties. The campus phone book included most
people's home (i.e., as well as on-campus) addresses & #s, and was
certainly not hard to get hold of; and there was a campus directory #,
which didn't have any way to check that the caller was an NU person.
Same at University of Chicago.
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