On Mon, 13 Nov 1995 13:56:16 -0500 Mark Hunnibell said:
>Nah... I guess your right, they're doing this just for personal
>pleasure... nothing commercial here. :-)
 
  So what is wrong with business?  It is the American way of life.  Hell,
these days it is the worldwide way of life except in a couple countries
that shall remain nameless.
 
>I guess so... I had not thought of it this way.  However, usually when
>your name is going to be published somehwere, like the phone book example
>you gave, they tell you in advance and give you the option not to publish.
 
  Only if you pay to NOT be in it.  And only because ICC and/or FCC
regs require it.
 
>operation, I just have to believe they would be concerned to find they
>were in bed with some local yokel who had just stolen 3 million names
>from lists and now the managers of those lists were now royally peeved
 
  Why?  There are businesses in bed with spammers, which is about a zillion
times worse.
 
>I doubt this can be fully turned around, but this is one of the the most
>serious threats to privacy on the Internet that I have seen come along and
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          Oxymoron Alert!   Oxymoron Alert!
 
There has never been any privacy on the net, and if think there has been,
particularly in a public forum, you're sadly mistaken.
 
 
cyclops
 
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