[news.admin] user directory group: SUmmary of some responses

Geva_Apple-Maniac_Patz@cup.portal.com (05/29/88)

Here's a summary of some of the mail I've got about the User directory
project I suggested. I've left out here those many messages offering
general support for the idea.

First off, David Fickes (sun.bu-it.bu.edu!berlin%bu-albert.bu.edu) asks

> Is this a ploy by you folks at portal to find a better way of doing
> direct-mail over the net?

Ahem. No, it isn't.

He goes on to say

> I see a gross abuse capability in this

Well, I agree, but then again, I feel: