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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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 Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator Albertsons Library, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 83725 USA [log in to unmask] http://cyclops.idbsu.edu/ How can one fool make another wise? Kansas, "No One Together," 1979