UNIX Reference Materials --- Product Announcement By SSC
scw at cepu.UUCP
scw at cepu.UUCP
Fri Mar 2 23:33:47 AEST 1984
>Personally, I get enough junk mail from lots of random sources that
>I never gave my permission to sell my name for, that I don't mind
>getting junk mail based on the Usenet directory.
Ditto, I think.
>I do want to emphasize that the purpose of the Usenet directory
>is not for mailing lists ... be complete.
HEAR HEAR!
>Obviously, SSC or any other generator of junk mail is obligated to
>remove anybody [...] we are not obligated to help them by marking
>unwilling junk mail recipients in the master list. (However, if there
>is sentiment that such marks would be of overall benefit to Usenet,
>we may consider it.)
I don't think that it's worth your effort.
>What I'd like to know is: what is the sentiment
>of Usenet on this issue - especially the netnews contacts to whom
>such mail is directed (thus I've added net.news.adm to this list)?
>Do you object to the Usenet directory (which is currently put into
>the public domain each month) being used for product mailing lists?
Somehow I think that some of the employers on the net won't like it.
especially headhunters.
>What about other things (headhunters come to mind)? Should we
>include some kind of policy statement in the cover letter that
>restricts the uses it can be put to? Would it do any good?
I think that it'd be a real good idea to note that the net (is not for)
/(should not be used for) comercial purposes. I suspect that a firm
statment that violators will be removed from the net, assuming that we
can/will do so (dropping their feed?) may do the trick.
How about a news group for product announcments and adverts (net.adds
or net.madison_ave)? That is a portion of the net that is SPECIFICLY
for comercial purposes.
Any discussion on this?
--
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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