Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.

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From: Allan E Johannesen
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 12:38

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To: abaqus@guinnett.com postmaster@emory.mathcs.emory.edu postmaster@hubcap.clemson.edu
Subject: Unsolicited Advertisement

Some may disagree, but I believe that mailing unsolicited advertisements is not
acceptable use for the Internet.  As of yesterday, six individuals at WPI had
received the advertisement for "Abacus Global Support".  The individual mail
messages (apparently the vendor didn't understand SMTP bulk delivery of their
junk mail) were routed via Emory and arrived from approximately 13:48 through
15:17.

Observing the postings in news.admin.misc this morning, I find that others
suffered similar distributions.

Although Emory and Clemson may consider their serving mail and addresses for
this business is some sort of public service (or is it done for a fee?), I
think those universities should rethink their association with an organization
which appears to have unethical business practices.

Part of the header of one of the messages:

> From abacus@gwinnett.COM Fri Oct  2 13:48:40 1992
> Message-Id: <m0maqZ6-00014rC@gwinnett.Gwinnett.COM>
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 13:13 EDT
> From: abacus@gwinnett.COM (Abacus Global Support)
> To: global.list@Gwinnett.COM

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References: <cro.718060294@ennews!socrates.ed.asu.edu> <1992Oct3.010042.15366@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Oct3.124935.19939@infodev.cam.ac.uk>

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From: aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.
Date: 3 Oct 92 12:38:17
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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