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Re: Darth Joules' alias (was: Re: Won't you give me one more try?)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:56:57 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, richard marchetti wrote:
> I am not disagreeing with your understanding of the TOS, but let me
> just throw in that I wish I had never used my real name to use lugnet.
> It's no real panic, but I am almost positive my full name and email
> address was collected from lugnet by spammers. It is this one thing
> that has spoiled me on the lugnet experience. I blame no one, but I
> just wanted to point out that if I had it to do over again y'all would
> know me as Winston Smith with an email address of
> not@bloody_likely.net!
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> In sympathy for persons like Darth, I think the TOS should be changed
> to reflect the privacy concerns/realities of the internet.
Massive confusion: what difference does it make whether or not spammers
have your full name? They'll cheerfully send you mail even if they don't
know your name.
(I should know---I'm currently getting spam at all my addresses (including
the heavily spamblocked addresses), and most of the senders couldn't care
less about my name. Meanwhile, free e-mail forwarding seems to have gone
the way of the dodo. . .)
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