Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 19:40:16 -0800 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Junk mail from hackers list Message-ID: <199703060340.TAA25919@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <199703060021.KAA07654.kithrup.freebsd.chat@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199703051731.KAA11876@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 5, 97 10:31:56 am"
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In article <199703060021.KAA07654.kithrup.freebsd.chat@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> you write: >> You would think AOL would have enough problems without pissing off >> a lot of highly technically knowledgable people... >I think that AOL management and technical staff are sufficiently stupid >that they couldn't care less about a market segment that already hates >their guts. I think you would be better off not making comments about people you don't know. I have been involved in trying to stop spam since Canter & Siegel. http://www.vix.com/spam/ will show I was one of the first people to sign up for it; in January and February, I cancelled over 2000 usenet articles. AOL has more problems than you probably realize; and their technical people are more clueful than you seem to think. I do not understand the bigotry against AOL customers. Yes, there are lots of clueless AOL people -- but there are lots of clueless people at any other ISP. AOL simply happens to be the biggest. Earthlink, as an end-user ISP, is the worst I've had to deal with, and AGIS, as a backbone provider, is even worse than that. Also, in response to Terry's original message: no, AOL does not mine addresses. If you send email to someone at AOL, your address does not get recorded by anyone but the recipient (and certain log files, of course -- but the same is true here). To be honest, I haven't seen much spam on the hacker's list. And all of my junk email apparantly comes from posting to usenet. (rec.arts.sf.written resulting in the most junk.) And, gosh, Terry certainly posts a lot to usenet; maybe *that*'s where his address is being found, hm? Sean.
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