I've seen that legal services pitch inappropriately posted on three lists, and I don't read nearly as many lists as I used to (presumably information about the Green Card Lottery is appearing in other places where it's not wanted). The following post from the list owner of SOS-DATA pretty much covers it. A large flood of U.S. mail to the Arizona Bar Association might be interesting--as would thousands of "don't do that" messages to the Canter & Siegel <[log in to unmask]> (feel free to send them copies of my part of this message) /s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> co-owner MAC-L, APPLE2-L ----------------------------Forwarded message from SOS-DATA---------------- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:28:08 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cassell <[log in to unmask]> [Jim is owner of the Social Science Data list] Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One? Welcome, once again, the the Information SuperHYPEway! Since NSF dropped it's restriction on commercial activities on the Internet a couple of years ago, we will probably see more of this junk mail. There is at least one book on advertising on the net--fortunately, it's author tells people not to do it in this fashion! I have already sent a note the the malafactor and the postmaster at their site. My objection is having materials posted to this group which have nothing to do with its focus--social science data. If you share this objection, you might also send a note to the author and the postmaster at that site. I'll be faxing a copy of this note to the firm listed--it's possible that this is a prank or some attempt at fraud. I also plan to send a note to the Arizona State Bar Association regarding the matter. Should you be inclined to chime in, their address is: Carolyn D. Nyhus, Director Arizona State Bar Association 363 North First Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1580 Fax: 602-271-4930