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Re: Anonymous E-mail
At 12:26 PM 10/8/96 -0700, Eric Murray <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk
Imagine if three million people voted for somebody they _knew_,
and the politicians had to count them all.