[9984] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Robinson)
Tue Feb 1 12:37:59 1994
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 12:30:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
Reply-To: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>,
>From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@TDR.COM>
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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On Thu Jan 06, 1994 6:46 pm EST, Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
was heard belching out the following:
> Next, although I'm not sure exactly how related this is,
> there are certainly laws in Europe that forbid the
> creation of certain kinds of user databases without
> authorization. If any of the names on those lists come
> from European sites (not always obvious, and perhaps not
> being screened for) then customers for this list just
> might be liable if they have operations in Europe and thus
> a presence for European governments to go after. This is
> probably not a real issue for someone like Inmac, but might
> or might not come back to bite some people if there are
> any cranky names on the list who want to see if there's
> some way to fight back.
Hey! That gives me an idea! I'll create a list and mail out ads for
Microsoft's latest mailer program to all these people, pretending to be
Microsoft, then I'll put out a shocked public announcement saying that my
company would never be so nasty as to send out unsolitcited ads for its
own products, then watch as Microsoft takes the heat for all of this!
Their claims that they never did such a thing would fall on deaf ears!
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Paul Robinson - Paul@TDR.COM
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