USENIX does *NOT* sell the membership list!!!

Arthur David Olson ado at elsie.UUCP
Sun Mar 20 03:27:55 AEST 1988


< How come you are getting mail from what appears to be
< the Attendees's List??  It is not at all unlikely that
< a person from some company registers for the conference
< and then takes the list which he gets for doing so and then
< gives it to a group of data entry people who simply
< type it in.  Quite frankly, that is a very, very
< cheap way to get what is probably a very high-quality
< maling list. There is very little the Association can do
< about that since the list was acquired completely legally.

A group I'm associated with copyrights such lists to at least make known
its intention that the lists not be used this way.  Usenix, being big enough
to afford lawyers, might even be able to make a few bucks off of copyright
infringement using this technique.  :-)
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