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Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:38
Mailing -- Breech of USENET Etiquette
Author: Usenet News Account
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:38
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:38
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A few users at my site complained to me last week about receiving an unsolicited, obviously commercial mailing from a certain Michael Mesaros (mesaros@isi.com). After doing some checking, the only commonality I was able to determine among the various usernames was that all had appeared on the recent news.groups posting listing all those who voted on the creation of the comp.soft-sys.matlab newsgroup. Use of this post to gather names for such unsolicited mailings strikes me as an obvious abuse of USENET as a non-commercial entity. If people knew that voting for a newsgroup would cause their mailbox to be flooded by junk mail, it might discourage people from taking part in the voting process -- something that I'm sure the USENET community does not want. I have sent e-mail to the postmaster at ISI about this, with unsatisfactory results. My question to this group is: Is it just me, or do other people feel that this is a breech of netiquette? -Dave -- Dave Henry Postmaster, News Admin, Network Manager The MathWorks, Inc. # EMAIL: beast@MathWorks.COM Natick, MA, USA # VOICE: +1 508 653 2452, x322
Re: Mailing -- Breech of USENET Etiquette
Author: Thumper
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:29
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:29
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In <C1H53y.9J5@MathWorks.COM> news@MathWorks.COM (Usenet News Account) writes:
> I have sent e-mail to the postmaster at ISI about this, with
>unsatisfactory results. My question to this group is: Is it just me,
>or do other people feel that this is a breech of netiquette?
Using a vote tally as the basis of a mailing list certainly strikes me as
an abuse of the net. But it would be very hard to prove that someone had
done something like that. In general I'm bothered by any unsolicited email
but most of that kind of stuff comes from within my own site.
-Geoff
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geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business
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