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Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.

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From: Spiros Triantafyllopoulos
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 16:22
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In article <1992Oct5.151336.15446@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.115945.29105@Gwinnett.COM> todd@Gwinnett.COM (Todd Reese) writes:
>>They (Abacus) learned of their mistake within a short time.  People make
>>mistakes in real life every day. Are those people of the net faultless??
>
>I'm sorry, are you saying that (a) the collection of a list containing
>international e-mail addresses, or (b) sending mail to everyone on that
>list, were *accidental*?  If not, I don't see where the 'mistake' comes
>into it.  Or do you mean these people were mistaken in their belief that
>all national and international academic networks are provided for the
>purpose of carrying (without charge) free international corporate
>advertising?  Frankly, I wouldn't call this a mistake, I'd call it an
>example of gross stupidity.

Good to see that my prediction regarding the fate of the net in the post
Mutlu days is coming to be true. I predicted the political parties, and
yessir, clinton-gore.org shows up. I predicted commercial operations
(such as the 'mistaken' abacus) flooding the net, and it happens; 

Let's see, we've got the Hair Club for Men (hair.com) still missing. Any
volunteers? 

Spiros


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Spiros Triantafyllopoulos                    c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
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From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: Question about unsolicited Internet Email.
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Date: 5 Oct 92 16:22:55 GMT
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