Fun_People Archive
18 Oct
Re: Your Net Activities for Sale

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 12:25:11 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Re: Your Net Activities for Sale

From: baren@uclink.berkeley.edu (Darryl Cobb)
Subject: Re: Your Net Activities for Sale 

If I write to them to tell them to stop selling personal info gathered from
the net, they will have my address to sell to activist lists.  Besides, they
aren't the government and won't stop a profitable business just because a
few (or even a lot) of people write to THEM to protest.  I'd suggest:
        1) Try to get legislation against this practice passed through our
federal "representatives".
        2) Make the Unabomber aware of this service which relies heavily on
technology and takes advantage of the common (computer using) man.

Just a reaction.

-Darryl

© 1995 Peter Langston