At 12:26 PM 10/8/96 -0700, Eric Murray
someone with slightly less scruples than I, and a little more time, and their own domain name & server, might consider writing a small program to create a few thousand accounts. Then sign them up with PINmail. Every email address that's registered to PINmail gets you $5, right?
Netscape didn't find www.PINmail.com for me, but I assume that it probably costs money to sign up for pinmail. If it's even $6, you won't win by creating a few thousand accounts for the $5 commission :-)
[privacy risks]
Of course, anywhere you have a concentration of email, especially where there's bait like a promise of privacy, you have to wonder about security risks. Besides PINmail, there's www.mailmasher.com (which has a strong privacy policy), www.hotmail.com (which wants more information and may do advertising or something), and there are the big services like AOL, Compu$erve, and Prodigy. What would happen if Sameer and Lance gave in to the Dark Side? What would happen if ATTMail were taken over by TPC? Risks happen - deal with it. Darth .... (OK, so nobody but AT&T ever really used ATTMail :-) We still own the Death Star. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk Imagine if three million people voted for somebody they _knew_, and the politicians had to count them all.