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startrek@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Breckenridge) writes:

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

>>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.

The government also has to some rules to abiide by. But, as always
with government, they can do anything they want.

>>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.

We've chosen to receive alt, we've not chosen to receive
junk mail. We pay for those people advertising.

>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! ;^>

Really. There are hundreds of companiews on the internet and
there are hundreds of companies receiving usenet. It's
not the one message that's bothering me. But if
these people get away with it, we'll be getting hundreds
of junk mail messages all from different addresses so you
won't be able to delete the messages easily.


Casper