From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:58:27 +0800
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Subject: Re: Anonymous E-mail
Message-ID: <199610090724.AAA14561@dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com>
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At 12:26 PM 10/8/96 -0700, Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com> wrote:
>someone with slightly less scruples than I, and a little more time, and
>their own domain name & server, might consider writing a small
>program to create a few thousand accounts.  Then sign them up with PINmail.
>Every email address that's registered to PINmail gets you $5, right?

Netscape didn't find www.PINmail.com for me, but I assume that it
probably costs money to sign up for pinmail.  If it's even $6,
you won't win by creating a few thousand accounts for the $5 commission :-)

> [privacy risks] 

Of course, anywhere you have a concentration of email,
especially where there's bait like a promise of privacy, you have
to wonder about security risks.  Besides PINmail, there's
www.mailmasher.com (which has a strong privacy policy),
www.hotmail.com (which wants more information and may do
advertising or something), and there are the big services like AOL,
Compu$erve, and Prodigy.  What would happen if Sameer and Lance gave in to
the Dark Side?   What would happen if ATTMail were taken over by TPC?
Risks happen - deal with it.

                                Darth


....
(OK, so nobody but AT&T ever really used ATTMail :-)  We still
own the Death Star.

#			Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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  and the politicians had to count them all.