Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!balkan!dogface!bei From: bei@dogface (Bob Izenberg) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they? Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 91 10:32:11 GMT References: <7845@alvin.mcnc.org> Distribution: na Lines: 18 ge@mcnc.org (George Entenman) writes: > Is there any reason to suspect that this is just a "spin"? As a member > of the ACLU who is concerned about who gets my name from their list (of > course, that's a moot point now that I've posted this! ;-) ), I > believe that organizations using the ACLU list don't see my name. There must be something that I've missed here. Organization A sells/gives its list to a mailing house, to generate a mailing for Organization B. Even though B never sees your name, you still get the mailing. What I didn't see was the source of the satisfaction in B's not seeing your name but still using it. Because B then can't give/sell it to someone else? -- Bob Bob Izenberg cs.utexas.edu!dogface!bei [ ] "So young, so bad... So what!" 512 346 7019 Wendy O. Williams