1994-12-14 - Re: Using HotWIRED without provoking junk mail

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From: “L. McCarthy” <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 479332ddc32e22f0a6090a82010bdccebe145d6260743b62fbb66dcb865fd8c4
Message ID: <199412140456.XAA12500@bb.hks.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-12-14 04:51:19 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 20:51:19 PST

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From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 20:51:19 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Using HotWIRED without provoking junk mail
Message-ID: <199412140456.XAA12500@bb.hks.net>
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> I get enough junk mail already, and I don't want vendors to be able to 
> capture market research at the browsing level (I haven't 
> looked at WIRED's server for precisely this reason).

A while back someone established a HotWIRED account in the name "cypherpunks"
with password "cypherpunks" to get around this. I make a point of mentioning
that whenever I point someone to HotWIRED. I'm assuming here that they're
not collecting identification data in some other way (if you're not using
Netscape ;).

- - -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server  "We've got computers, 
we're tapping phone lines; I know that that ain't allowed" --Talking Heads

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