In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Hoffman / IMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 11:39 PM 1/6/00 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>Well, gotta run now. I'm off to www.egroups.com. I gotta sign up
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to a few dozen of their stupid non-confirming
>>lists. Oh yea! And I musn't forget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>!
>
>Great idea, Ron! Go commit fraud in the name of anti-spamming. That is sure
>to help the anti-spam movement.
It isn't fraud.
Egroups has their system setup so that anyone can subscribe anyone else
to their mailing lists. I assume that that is intentional on their part...
kind-of like MCI's ``friends and family'' plan. Egroups is intentionally
allowing me (and you, and everybody) to sign up our friends and family
to their lists. (The new subscribee's ascent to this is apparently not
required.)
Given that, and given that I'm quite sure that <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
would just love to get information from lotsoffreestuff.com via egroups.com,
I'm simply going to nominate him for this swell free service.
If there is any fraud involved here, it is egroups fradulently trying to
pretend that they have no control over what their own servers are doing,
not to mention egroups fradulent attempts to skirt the letter of current
California law by acting as front-men for the spammers using their services.
