1998-12-05 - Re: Netsurfer Digest: Vol. 04, #35

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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:29:28 +0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: Netsurfer Digest: Vol. 04, #35
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At 4:14 AM -0500 on 12/5/98, editor-bounce@netsurf.com wrote:


> Secret Netsurfing... for a Fee
>
> You meet such nice people in this job. People like Cyber Promotions, who
>believe the way to a great Web site is not content, originality, or
>design, but an "aggressive marketing campaign every week" - it sells spam.
>For a fee, Cyber Promotions will send out up to 50,000 messages at a time
>through untraceable remailers and silent servers. This delightful
>organization also bring us - as expected, for a fee - Ultimate Anonymity,
>under the guise of the old-style anonymity sites which campaigned to the
>death against censorship and government interference (remember Penet?).
>Anyone with $14 can use this site to post anonymously in newsgroups, send
>unlimited quantities of untraceable e-mail (with attachments), and
>generally pollute the bandwidth. There may be genuine privacy campaigners
>using the site, if they can squeeze in between all the amateur porn
>merchants.... <http://www.ultimate-anonymity.com/>
>http://www.ultimate-anonymity.com/

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'





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