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From: rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: use of the maps for mailing list
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.221920.26707@sherpa.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 91 22:19:20 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.152705.6226@null.uucp>
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Organization: Personal System Computing :-)
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From article <1991Jun8.152705.6226@null.uucp>, by eric@null.uucp (Eric J. Johnson):
> Today I received some junk mail from a company called:
> 
> 	Technology Hotlines
> 	P.O. Box 719
> 	Clearwater, FL  34617
> 	(813)461-3317
> 
> In the form of a packet of those little reply cards.
> 
> These people clearly used a mailing list extracted from
> the UUCP Maps since my name on the mailing looked like:

[...]

> Does anyone down there in FL know of this company, or know who is
> extracting this information for mailing lists?


I live in St Petersburg (next door to Clearwater) and also received
the card pack (and also knew by the address they had used my map info).

A friend works as a tech support specialist for the company next door
to Technology Hotlines.  Both companies are owned by the same people
(Scientologists though that doesn't matter).  He checked with them
and was told that they buy their mailing lists from elsewhere.  No
one seemed to know where that particular list came from.  Either that
or they were too lazy or busy to find out.

My solution was to change my map entry to only include a city and
state in the #P line.  Of course this also prevents anyone who may
have a legitimate reason for contacting you from doing so.

-- 
Roger Cornelius          rac@sherpa.UUCP         uunet!sherpa!rac