From: IN%"bruce@aracnet.com" "Bruce Baugh" 26-MAY-1996 17:00:35.76

Righ. But in addition to the forcible acquisition of information, there's the unwitting acquisition - you are never informed that party A has transmitted information X to party B, who in turn passed it to C, who garbled it and then passed the erroneous info to D....

Assume that they're gathering all information they can, unless they make a specific agreement that they aren't doing so. Some magazines have that as part of their subscriptions - they state that they only exchange mailing list with certain other parties, wh have agreed that they won't transmit it further; these magazines (e.g., Consumer Reports) also tend to give people an opt-out option on even this exchange, incidentally. -Allen