At 12:45 PM -0800 3/20/97, Lile Elam wrote:
Hi folks,
Selling email addresses seems to me to be a bad idea. Wouldn't it be better to have people sign up instead of this? I mean, it looks like this is for spammers.
Who can I contact about this abuse?
It may be tacky and undesirable, but public information is just that, public. (I don't mean some quasi-legalistic distinction between "public" and "private," as defined by regulators, I mean information publically accessible.) If one wants something kept private, use privacy tools. (And as Cypherpunks know so well, if regulators/legislators attempt to interfere in such markets, the markets will simply move to other jurisdictions, or into cyphersace.) --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."