CDR: Dealing with Spam from Esther Dyson
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Fri Oct 27 20:40:51 PDT 2000
By the way, a few minutes with Google turned up other instances of
Esther Dyson's spamming.
Here's just one such URL, along with the opening paragraphs:
http://channel.nytimes.com/1998/03/28/technology/28dyson.html
March 28, 1998
I Got Spammed by Esther Dyson:
Release, the Old-Fashioned Way
By LISA NAPOLI
ecently, I got a note from the publisher of Release 1.0, the
venerable newsletter put out by the venerable (and mythic) godmother
of all things digital, Esther Dyson.
It wasn't a casual e-mail. It wasn't a letter asking me to write for
the newsletter. It wasn't even a personal note asking me to have
lunch, or attend her annual conference (which took place this week in
Tucson, where, for the first time, non-Release subscribers were
permitted to attend.)
The note was plain old-fashioned snail mail spam, asking me to fork
over nearly 700 bucks for a subscription.
Dear Lisa,
Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski believe that someone who's achieved
your stature in our industry should be part of the Release 1.0
family. That's why they've suggested I write this letter to you.
Stature? How did they measure that? Did Jerry Michalski remember
sitting at the same table with me at a conference luncheon once? Did
Esther ever read my now deceased column, Hyperwocky? Did some
computer notice my name on all those mailing lists?
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