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Article #293Re: Is Primenet secure ? ...
From: Charlie McCann
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00
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James J. Lippard wrote: > >I hate to keep bringing this up Jim but I don't even know who *they* > >are. I asked politely for the name of the telemarketing firm you gave my > >personal/confidential information to and you won't reveal it. How then > >do you expect me to recommend their ability to meet any contractual > >obligations if I don't even know who they are ? > > I don't expect you to recommend them, nor would I expect you to be able > to make any kind of authoritative judgment about their reliability in > contractual matters even if you *did* know their name. Nor do I expect > you to know the background and reliability of every employee of Primenet > who has access to accounting information, which is just as relevant to > your stated concerns but about which you have not expressed any worries. You may be comfortable equating primenet's accounting personnel with telemarketer's but I'm not. > (Now I'd better stop using philosophical jargon in postings that are > crossposted to alt.usenet.kooks or I might find myself nominated...) Good, I threw that part out because I didn't understand it. Charlie McCann -- The fact is that Primenet turns over confidential/personal customer information from their data base to Telemarketing Firms to be used for purposes never intended by their customers.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f863a,809105d55b5345f5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf863a,public X-Google-Thread: 10f7a7,46df9e4e58d5605b X-Google-Attributes: gid10f7a7,public X-Google-Thread: febea,809105d55b5345f5 X-Google-Attributes: gidfebea,public X-Google-Thread: 1084c1,809105d55b5345f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1084c1,public From: Charlie McCann <chasmc@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Is Primenet secure ? ... Date: 1997/04/28 Message-ID: <336547B3.65FA@primenet.com> X-Deja-AN: 238089747 References: <335FAB1B.3828@primenet.com> <33651EF4.B14@primenet.com> <5k38da$k9p$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> <3365343E.43DB@primenet.com> <5k3dco$r39$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet X-Posted-By: @207.98.184.61 (chasmc) Newsgroups: primenet.general,az.general,az.internet,alt.usenet.kooks