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casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:

>cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu (C. R. Oldham) writes:

>>I received an unsolicited email message from abacus@global.gwinnet.com
>>today.  It was blatantly advertising the services of Abacus Global
>>Support, Inc.  I thought this kind of thing was illegal--or at least
>>not within the spirit of the Internet!

>Same problem here. There are no written rules concerning Usenet,
>the unwritten rule is that no advertisemnts are sent. I suspect
>that these idiots have gathered addresses from Usenet postings,
>which is very simple, and have send e-mail to a selection of them.

>I've already sent them a note telling me that they pissed me off
>and that I will never give any business to them.

That's your option.

>I'm not too familiar with US law concerning the gathering of
>addresses, but it is illegal to have such a database in my country.
>(I mean, you can have any database you want, but you must register
>that fact and than there are some rules about having to
>consent to being in the database, government exempted as always).

That's pretty amazing...what restriction on one's ability to gather and store information...especially since you say your government is allowed to.

>If a large number of people has received this shit, we'd better
>take a firm stance and flame these people (out of business,
>if need be).

Fine. Let's really narrow the bandwidth and dump half the "alt." hierarchy at the same time.

Actually, I'm just being facetious...I think you've really overblown the Abacus deal...remember, if you don't like a message, you can always - and easily - DELETE it! ;^>