🚀 go-pugleaf

In mi.misc Joe Parente <jparente@optonline.net> wrote:
> "J.D. Baldwin" wrote:
>> 
>> On the other hand, I don't give out my actual full first name on
>> Usenet, just because I don't want any automated databases correlating
>> my identity now or a few years in the future.  I live to thwart
>> marketing droids.

> Me too. I always alter my name or address in a subtle way
> every time I use it in communicating with a company, just so 
> I can see who exactly is selling my name and stop dealing
> with them. 

If Joe Parente <jparente@optonline.net> is your real name and email
address, you blew it miserably here. You are communicating with untold
thousands of companies that are mining your name and addresses (complete
header info) and merging it with other databases about you (whether or not
you are currently receiving SPAM). Needless to say, various government
agencies are collecting this information, too. They are adding a line
reference to your posting in their database. (Even God's truth will be
twisted to reveal something all together different if a government
prosecutor should ever want to find you guilty of some crime. Adamant and
belligerent attitudes, like those you have, espoused here would be great
character material for a prosecutor even in case involving a traffic
ticket.)

Many ISP's encourage users to assume pseudonyms, aliases and doctored
return addresses when posting to worldwide USENET groups. Your personal
information is like gold. If someone is to steal it, at least make them
dig for it, don't let them strip mine it off the surface or hand it to
them on a platter.