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t writes:
>At 07:12 PM 10/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> 1) The billing thing (I am tempted to pay this bill I just got for
>They ARE putting the record in their database. This is what the bill is
>for. It does not matter it is redundant or not. Not illegal - many people
>pay fake yellow page bills every day. NSI is in the same classs of theives
>(legal ones) now.
I have a feeling the postmaster will (or could be convinced to) not
be so accomodating. It is clear to the purchaser that the value of
the service they are purchasing is not inclusion in a meaningless
internal database, but in the root zone. If that is the impression
that NSI wants to make (and it is quite clear that that is what they
are selling), then keeping funds paid on the grounds that they are
providing *A* service is tantamount to misrepresentation (the payor
is not getting the service they thought they were, and the misleading
of the consumer is pretty blatant).
Recall recently (past 12-15 months or so), that the postmaster (or Congress,
or the PM w/ Congressional encouragement ?) finally put an end
to the longstanding practice of sweepstakes' INTENTIONALLY
misleading people with envelopes with 1" tall print reading "John Doe Has
Definitely Won $10,000,000" and fine print reading "is what we'll say
if you have and return the winning entry." This wasn't illegal
either, because the mailers covered themselves with the fine print.
But their intent was clear: make people think they've already won
so they'll return the entry.
The decision was that, covering yourself in a legalistic fashion
with fine print is not enough. You may not intentionally mislead people
through the US Mail.
-Cengiz
