Re: On-line Email Registry Service

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From: Kekatos
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1988 21:47

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In article <21660@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>>To Register:
>>Dial (203) 245-7720 or (800) 622-0505  with your modem 
  { text deleted }
>prevent trivial fraud, such as my listing myself as Ronald Reagan and
>setting up an account rr@bu-cs.bu.edu (ok, that would be a little
>blatant, but you get the idea.)
>

How does anyone know that your name really isn't Ronald Reagan?
There are hundreds of them in the US. If you listed your occupation 
as "President, United States of America",
Then I would wonder if it was reallt you..

((( I have nothing to do with the above mentioned service. )))

Ted G. Kekatos
backbone!ihnp4!ihuxv!tedk                     (312) 979-0804
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Indian Hill South, IX-1F-460
Naperville & Wheaton Roads - Naperville, Illinois. 60566 USA

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From: tedk@ihuxv.ATT.COM (Kekatos)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,soc.misc,misc.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: On-line Email Registry Service
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Date: 15 Apr 88 21:47:11 GMT
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