Subject: Re: Inviting flames
Date: Jan 3 12:01:27 1998
From: "Susan L. Collicott" - camel at serv.net
One thing that bothers me about him posting these email addresees *ON THE
LIST* is that the list was purposely made private in order to combat spam
(or "UCE", Unwanted Commercial Email).
You can't even do a "rec tweeters" at the listproc:
>From listproc at u.washington.edu Sat Jan 3 11:58:19 1998
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 11:56:45 PST
From: University of Washington ListProcessor <listproc at u.washington.edu>
Subject: REC TWEETERS
camel at serv.net: This request may be issued by owners only.
So then he goes and posts everyone's addresses to the list! ARGH! You do
NOT post addresses to a list - that's a cardinal rule among listkeepers
that I know of (who huge lists that number members in the thousands).
Now, and forevermore, there will be a huge list of addresses in the
archive, easy pickings.
Also, some people had set their addresses to not appear in the 'rec' list
- it's a choice to be private. Their choice was now removed from them by
this person.
All in all, I think it was a pretty stinky thing to do. And yes, I'm
upset.
Susan Collicott
camel at serv.net
Seattle, WA
Meadowbrook Neighborhood