eric@null.uucp (Eric J. Johnson) (06/08/91)
Today I received some junk mail from a company called: Technology Hotlines P.O. Box 719 Clearwater, FL 34617 (813)461-3317 In the form of a packet of those little reply cards. These people clearly used a mailing list extracted from the UUCP Maps since my name on the mailing looked like: ERIC U. JOHNSON (ADMINI While my map entry name reads: Eric U. Johnson (Administrator) In my map entry, I explicitly prohibit the use of the information in the creation of lists, so someone is being rather rude at the least in using this information. Does anyone down there in FL know of this company, or know who is extracting this information for mailing lists? -- Eric J. Johnson UUCP: eric@null.uucp The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and in no way reflect the will of Landru. (or U S WEST Communications)
gws@n8emr.uucp (Gary Sanders) (06/09/91)
In article <1991Jun8.152705.6226@null.uucp> eric@null.uucp (Eric J. Johnson) writes: >Today I received some junk mail from a company called: I have been getting junk mail from companys for years and they all seem to be using the uucp map entrys. I dont see any way that anyone can forbid the use of the list unless the area coordinators for the maps starts putting disclamers in the maps files. -- Gary W. Sanders (gws@n8emr or ...!osu-cis!n8emr!gws), 72277,1325 N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 [Ohio AMPR address coordinator] HAM BBS 614-895-2553 Voice: 614-895-2552 (eves/weekends)
rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius) (06/11/91)
From article <1991Jun8.152705.6226@null.uucp>, by eric@null.uucp (Eric J. Johnson): > Today I received some junk mail from a company called: > > Technology Hotlines > P.O. Box 719 > Clearwater, FL 34617 > (813)461-3317 > > In the form of a packet of those little reply cards. > > These people clearly used a mailing list extracted from > the UUCP Maps since my name on the mailing looked like: [...] > Does anyone down there in FL know of this company, or know who is > extracting this information for mailing lists? I live in St Petersburg (next door to Clearwater) and also received the card pack (and also knew by the address they had used my map info). A friend works as a tech support specialist for the company next door to Technology Hotlines. Both companies are owned by the same people (Scientologists though that doesn't matter). He checked with them and was told that they buy their mailing lists from elsewhere. No one seemed to know where that particular list came from. Either that or they were too lazy or busy to find out. My solution was to change my map entry to only include a city and state in the #P line. Of course this also prevents anyone who may have a legitimate reason for contacting you from doing so. -- Roger Cornelius rac@sherpa.UUCP uunet!sherpa!rac