NODE d3c18898Re: WARNING: direct-marketing email address list
jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)Wed, 3 Nov 93 12:47:26 PST
> According to the Internet Business Report 1.3 (page 4), J.S. McBride and
> Company are selling access to a database of Internet addresses, including
> demographic information. They claim over one million entries. The net
>
I receive an unsolicited e-mail from these people just the other day. It said
something to effect of
"I have heard that you may be interested in implementing UNIX/Mac/PC
software...I have a database of contact addresses that may interest you...I am
NOT selling anything...If I have mis-read your intentions, I apologize.
However, could you forward this letter to someone would may be interested."
I deleted it.
Jim_Miller@suite.com
NODE abb719ebWARNING: direct-marketing email address list
"Alan (Gesture Man) Wexelblat" <wex@media.mit.edu>Wed, 3 Nov 93 13:42:22 PST
As I've pointed out several times in other places, the Internet as it's
currently set up makes junk mail remarkably easy to deter. Kill files can
remove it before you see it or if the offender persists, a cron job mailing
him core files can be a remarkable deterrent.
--Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard
Media Lab - Advanced Human Interface Group wex@media.mit.edu
Voice: 617-258-9168, Pager: 617-945-1842 PUBLIC KEY available by request
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.