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Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-21 04:30:01

is the database of rfc authors declared under the Data Protection Act
in the UK, with the reasons and uses?

if not, i am afraid this is illegal. if you visit the IETF in london,
you might be in for a surprise

otherwise, fine and good luck and it seems like a sensible service...

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Hi folks,

I guess it is time to come out of the shadows. As many of you know, =
Network Sorcery maintains a mirror site with the RFCs. Three years ago =
we started maintaining home pages for RFC authors so we could collect a =
listing of contact info, publications they have written and whatever bio =
info they want to reveal. The contact info gets stale over time.

Yes it is true, we actually try to contact authors using the contact =
info in their latest RFC. It is also true that I send out a form letter =
requesting the info. Why would I want to compose the same letter over =
and over again? If we wanted to spam the largest number of authors this =
would be the group to send it to. I have tried to be descrete but I =
guess someone took offence at actually trying to contact him.

It would certainly make my life easier if the IETF would provide a =
directory that the authors could update themselves. I have volunteered =
in the past to share this info with the IETF.

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 cheers

   jon



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