Re: Whois on CDROM

[Andrea Di Lecce <slinky () rogerswave ca>]

At 13:02 9/25/98 -0400, you wrote:
> How Clintonesque a definition:  emailing to 100,000 and guerilla marketing
> does not equal UCE/spam.


Heh.  I don't buy their explanation either - if you look closely at the
node from UUNet that the spam was sent out on, you'll see it came from San
Diego.  The domain name is registered to an address in San Diego.
Coincidence ?  Hrm.

Here are some articles on the fate of those behind this fiasco.  

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/article/0,2334,14630,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15221.html
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980921b.html

You'll notice in the Wired article that one of the people involved admits
that the list was for marketing.. "demographic research for direct mail
campaigns."  Grr.  I hope the list didn't go too far.

 



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