[net.misc] Tracing junk mail

gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (03/01/84)

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On some magazines and club memberships I have changed my middle
initial to various letters to see who sold my name to who.

(This can backfire on you, however, when the computer finds that
"G. Z. Moffett" != "G. A. Moffett" and you get double --
or triple! -- junk mail ...)