Re: Using HotWIRED without provoking junk mail

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> I get enough junk mail already, and I don't want vendors to be able to 
> capture market research at the browsing level (I haven't 
> looked at WIRED's server for precisely this reason).

A while back someone established a HotWIRED account in the name "cypherpunks"
with password "cypherpunks" to get around this. I make a point of mentioning
that whenever I point someone to HotWIRED. I'm assuming here that they're
not collecting identification data in some other way (if you're not using
Netscape ;).

- - -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server  "We've got computers, 
we're tapping phone lines; I know that that ain't allowed" --Talking Heads

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"L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> writes:

>A while back someone established a HotWIRED account in the name "cypherpunks"
>with password "cypherpunks" to get around this. I make a point of mentioning

funny thing about that. i told a non-cp friend about this when he
first discovered hotwired's policy. he used it for a while, and then
somehow mentioned it on another list (something to do with
publishing), in a discussion with one of wired's folk. she (wired
person) later made the comment that she looked it up, and halfway
through that day there were over 100 hits to that account already.

tells us three things:

-at least this wired staffer was somewhat amused with the prospect
(rather than annoyed, as i had expected). 
-they have a fairly simple way of checking up on usage, by account, by
day. which means they are probably using this data for something
already. 
-the account is well used.

-avi

From: Avi Harris Baumstein <avi@clas.ufl.edu>

   -at least this wired staffer was somewhat amused with the prospect
   (rather than annoyed, as i had expected). 

I ran into one of the Hotwired guys at a couple of weeks ago.  Not
only didn't he mind particularly, he thought it most appropriate that
the general purpose pseudonym account was called 'cypherpunk'.

   -the account is well used.

In fact, the 'cypherpunk' is by far and away the No. 1 user of
Hotwired.  Maybe 'cypherpunks' will become number No. 2.

Eric