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From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: Those (henious) Information Brokers; who are they?
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Date: 26 Apr 91 14:36:11 GMT
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In <kadie.672519846@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu> I write:

>Well, the ACLU doesn't actually give the list to Greenpeace. They give
>it to a trusted junk-mail printer. Greenpeace also gives their
>material to the junk-mail printer. Then the junk-mail printer puts
>address to envelope and then puts it all in the mailbox.

I like this system for four reasons:
  1) my name/address/affiliation does not spread exponentially,
     thus the amount of junk mail I get (based on this information)
     stays constant.
  2) If I tell the ACLU to stop leasing my name, the junk mail based
     on this information will stop quickly.
  3) My privacy is protected (only my organization and the trusted
      junk mail producer every see the information)
  4) It shows that there is a middleground between not sharing information
     and all and sharing it completely. Is suggests compromise provisions
     in a privacy law.

     


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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
