Donald M. Kitchen wrote:
rryan@blackhills.com (Richard Ryan) writes:
Had my first hard core, proveable case of MSN reading someones drive. Store Client had entered fantasy company name upon installing a program. Forgot about it, didn't tell anyone. 2 days after downloading a simple text file from MSN a junk mail offering from Pitney-Bowes showed up in his snail mailbox addressed to him c/o the fantasy company. Somebody is playing somewhere they shouldn't be. Any comments, Microsoft?
I registered as Richard E. Graves (changing middle initials and adding an unnecessary suite number to your address are good ways to track who has been selling whom your address). Richard E. Graves also received mail from Pitney-Bowes.
Microsoft says they don't sell their mailing lists. Clearly, someone has taken advantage of security holes in the NT servers that make up MSN and *stole* the mailing lists. Maybe unauthorized external access accounts for the abysmal performance of MSN, in part.
Hmmm... Did you guys check the box that says not to give your name out when signing up? I did and I haven't gotten any junk mail yet. I've been using MSN for half a year now. Of course if there is a security hole, then the checkbox would hardly matter. -- ~Jules (Julius Cisek) /- __ - mailto:jules@netscape.com Server Eng, NETSCAPE /\ >\=/\ --- http://home.netscape.com/people/jules MtnView-CA-USA-Earth \/ -\/ -- p:415.528.2968 f:415.528.4122 ---===> COGITO ERGO VROOM <===---