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Subject:Re: Blue Sky Software Email Policy From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:43:25 -0600
At 08:06 AM 6/27/98 -0700, Joy White wrote:
>The rented list is probably from STC. STC sells its membership lists
>for one-time use fees. Renters cannot re-use the mailing lists without
>paying the fee to STC each mailing.
Joy is likely exactly right--many of the vaguely tech writing
related spams I've gotten lately have been a direct result of STC's
rental list. After one instance of serious misuse of the
TECHWR-L list and several other suspected cases, I started
calling some of the spammers to find out where they
got my name, and all that I contacted pointed to the STC list.
Eric
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