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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: use of netnews site information databases
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 18:05:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 18:05:31 1984
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This happened to me once before. I managed to identify the site which
was responsible for the mailing (well, if they mail to my address in
the USENET Compact Directory, then they must be on USENET somewhere...)
and I let them know that I did *not* appreciate their use of the USENET
directory, and they promised never to do it again. So far as I'm
concerned, use of the USENET Compact directory as a direct mail
marketing list is inappropriate, especially since there are
commercially available mailing lists for that purpose.

Just find out who on the net did it, and let 'em know that you don't
appreciate it. They do stop if you raise a big enough stink.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

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