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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 22 February 1997

From Ian Gent

Glasgow

You report that large commercial organisations wish to ban use of their World
Wide Web addresses, barring explicit permission. Of course, none of these
companies would ever consider using, or, even worse, buying and selling, my
physical address without my explicit permission. Which leaves an interesting
question: how come I still get junk mail?

Issue no. 2070 published 22 February 1997

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