CDR: Re: FW: BLOCK: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers

[Tim May]

At 11:36 AM -0800 11/3/00, Bill Stewart wrote:

(about AT&T knowingly supporting Spam sites)

>
>Fortunately, somebody got this to the right people at AT&T;
>otherwise I was going to have to contact the Sales VP (Hovancak)
>whose name was on the contract and ask him to find the sales rep
>who got fast-talked into signing that contract. 
>AT&T's privacy policies mean that we can't reveal information on
>our customers' networks, so it's the PR folks' problem
>to tell you that we've learned the error of our ways,

Oh, I doubt AT&T has "learned the error of its ways." This is just 
their spin control.

Like Esther Dyson's spin control..."I won't let it happen again."

Until, of course, the next mass mailing to her "Dear Friends" goes out.


--Tim May


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