1996-03-20 - Re: Would the FTC crack down on snake oil someday?

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From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
To: “Mark M.” <markm@voicenet.com>
Message Hash: dcc392eced2a633da4e269be22d3c2d81ac7587bd5434a3492243e57087f07ff
Message ID: <314F5B53.6B07@unix.asb.com>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960318163654.295A-100000@gak>
UTC Datetime: 1996-03-20 21:53:42 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:53:42 +0800

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From: Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:53:42 +0800
To: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: Would the FTC crack down on snake oil someday?
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Mark M. wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:
> 
> > Enclosed is an excerpt from Edupage. Snake-oil crypto popped into my
> > mind.... I wonder if the FTC (Federal Trade Commission... agency
> > *meant* to crack down on consumer fraud, for non-US readers here)
> > would ever get into act here.
> >
> > Does the FTC have a home page? (Guess I'll do a search...)
> 
> http://www.ftc.gov .

Cool. They now have a privacy mailing list...
(Check out http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm)





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