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Subject: Re: [lojban] where the mailing lists lie
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> > They can't sell what you don't give them. (Hint: they have no way to
> > verify the truth of anything you enter into their data fields, other
> > than your email address.
>
> Ummm, who cares about anything other than our e-mail addresses?

I'm also concerned for beginners who might not know any better than to
give Yahoo various other information.

(And certainly for those people who might not realize what will happen
when a corporation gets its hands on a nice big list of email addresses.
Particularly since they probably wouldn't be able to do anything
productive to stop the spam they'd start getting.)

- Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>
Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose


