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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Post Office plans to sell address databases.
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Date: 17 Dec 90 21:06:16 GMT
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In article <ABRAMS.90Dec17104901@division.cs.columbia.edu> abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) writes:

> I see nothing wrong with this from a legal
>point of view, since people were always able to obtain nearly any
>informatio n they wanted about someone anyway.

But you've missed the point that it's now easy to look at that
information in bulk -- "Where are the over-65 rich widows in my
neighborhood?" Finding that out used to be a laborious task; it seems
Lotus allows you to do it in just a few keystrokes. Amazing what
online information can be used for.