Re: WARNING: direct-marketing email address list
According to the Internet Business Report 1.3 (page 4), J.S. McBride and Company are selling access to a database of Internet addresses, including demographic information. They claim over one million entries. The net
I receive an unsolicited e-mail from these people just the other day. It said something to effect of "I have heard that you may be interested in implementing UNIX/Mac/PC software...I have a database of contact addresses that may interest you...I am NOT selling anything...If I have mis-read your intentions, I apologize. However, could you forward this letter to someone would may be interested." I deleted it. Jim_Miller@suite.com
As I've pointed out several times in other places, the Internet as it's currently set up makes junk mail remarkably easy to deter. Kill files can remove it before you see it or if the offender persists, a cron job mailing him core files can be a remarkable deterrent. --Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard Media Lab - Advanced Human Interface Group wex@media.mit.edu Voice: 617-258-9168, Pager: 617-945-1842 PUBLIC KEY available by request Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
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