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From: glass@portia.Stanford.EDU (Brett Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: How to get out of the Lotus database
Message-ID: <1990Dec26.013352.17290@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Dec 90 01:33:52 GMT
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Before you go running off to the Direct Mail Association and file your
name with them, remember: the tapes distributed by their "Mail Preference
Service" are among the most widely distributed lists in the WORLD. You may
not receive any junk mail, but any party -- including credit bureaus,
government agencies, and listkeepers such as Dun & Bradstreet and TRW --
can find you via that list. In short, while you may save a few trees,
your privacy is not protected at all.

This scam highlights the need for strict laws requiring entities that
sell lists to purge them on an individual basis, rather than relying
on other lists which are also publicly available. In the meantime, if
you are truly concerned about privacy, you may want to consider other
methods of removing yourself from mailing lists.

<BG>