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	This is in regards to the article "A Brave New World on the 
Wide-Open Web," which appeared on page 7 of the Washington Post's 
Business section on January 22, 1995.

	Overall, the article was very good.  However, there were a few 
misrepresentations which I'd like to bring to your attention.
	The main one had to do with Canter & Siegel's actions in April of
1994.  You wrote that they "posted ads for green card services on
discussion groups on the Internet," which, while technically correct,
doesn't even come close to explaining why the vast majority of Internet
users were unhappy with them.
	You see, they didn't just post a few messages. They posted over
6,000 copies of their message, taking up many megabytes of space on
thousands of computers all over the world. 
	One good source for more information is the Net Abuse FAQ, written
by Scott Southwick <scotty@bluemarble.net>.  It is avaliable at
'http://www.bluemarble.net/~scotty/acena.html'.
	Or, feel free to ask me -- I was an eye witness.  *sigh*

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