Oops ... my bad. I use the newsgroup so much (Outlook Express), I forgot
about the username and password. Thank you for setting the record straight,
Jon.
C-ya in a couple weeks ;-)
Chuck Robbins
'99 Dakota Sport
www.intense99dak.com
> : Are you reading the list via the DML newsgroup? There are companies
> : which get email addies from various newsgroups and sell them to the
highest
> : bidder.
>
> That is true, but the DML newsgroups aren't distributed as a Usenet
feed;
> they are private newsgroups where the messages stay on the server and
> a usercode and password is required to access them. (They were set up as
> private for this very reason.) Granted, there isn't anything stopping
anyone
> from signing up as a normal user and collecting e-mail addresses (this is
> true for any mailing list as well), but generally they are looking for an
> easier source; they don't want the hassle of looking up passwords,
> subscribing, etc. for a few hundred or a thousand addresses when they can
> get millions from Usenet.
>
> --
>
> -Jon-
>
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