From: storm@marlin.ssnet.com (Don Melvin)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 20:40:14 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Where is the Line Between Public and Private Data?
In-Reply-To: <9501302100.AA05636@TeleCheck.com>
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In article <9501302100.AA05636@TeleCheck.com>,
Joe Turner <turner@telecheck.com> wrote:
> 
> The U.S. Postal Service is selling the NCOA (National Change of Address)
> data to credit card companies.  Some junk-mailing lists are also 
> produced.

Minor point: the NCOA data is only available if you have the previous
address.  Mailers submit a list of name/addresses to an NCOA contractor
(severly limited in what they can do) and if there is a match with the
address supplied by the mailer, the address is updated.  You cannot
just call them up and buy mailing lists.

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America - a country so rich and so strong we can reward the lazy 
          and punish the productive and still survive (so far)

Don Melvin                  storm@ssnet.com                finger for PGP key.

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