[Coco] [coco]Re: Glenside CoCo~123 Newsletter

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

From: "George Ramsower" <georgeramsower at gmail.com>
> Mary,
> 
>  Thank you for your concern.
>  I got over it after an hour or so. However, keep in mind that I have never 
> had any communications with GCCC and I've never bought anything from them.
>  Therefore, the only way they could have obtained my email is by gleaning it 
> from this list.
>  It was that gleaning that upset me. Email harvesting is not a good practice 
> and is generally frowned upon in the internet community.
>  They've also listed me as a member on their website and I've never signed 
> up. I don't understand what their intentions are, but it's not socially 
> acceptable.
> 
>  Though I've never had any dealings with them, I ALWAYS assumed they were 
> respectable and on the level. This little snafu has altered my perception of 
> that organization.
> 
>  Hehe! I wouldn't get MAD, but I might be concerned about your reality if 
> you accidentally sent me an email to my personal email address when, I 
> shouldn't even be in your address book.
> 
>  Whucha think? Am I wrong?

Funny, I've posted here enough times that they could have harvested my address (which hasn't changed since cable network service came into this neighborhood, call it nine years or so) any time and I don't get squat from GCCC.  I get plenty of other stuff that my filters shove into the garbage (I look before the final kill since about 2% are false positives) but I don't worry about viruses since I don't run a networked system with Bill Gates' hand in it.  Yes, I do run one 'doze system with no direct (IP) access to the outside (it's the one that I use as a TV recorder since the stuff that Hauppage ships is just enough more convenient than the Linux tools, at least for a few more months), and a whole bunch of machines with Microsoft BASIC ROMs -- despite the FOSS ideal, this can never be a totally Microsoft-free household.
--
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

These histrionics were probably unnecessary, since there was no reason to think anybody would be watching us with more than casual interest until I made my first move to follow Buchanon's trail, in London.  Still, somebody might check back this far later, and I always feel that if you're going to play a part, you might as well play iy all the way, at least in public -- and it's hard to tell what's public and what isn't, these electronic days.
Donald Hamilton, _The Devastators_, 1965