7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
2:26 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I hadn't heard of Comdex until I read an old
1981-ish article about it in one of my 80
Microcomputing magazines.
Exactly how long was Comdex a yearly event
for?
1981?? until 2003
at it's peak (~1990) it had well over 150K attendees (The management
usually about doubled the numbers), and used up just about every hotel
room and exhibit hall in Vegas. Because I was exhibiting, I never got a
chance to see the stuff at Cashman field center, nor even Adultdex at the
Sahara.
I think it's stupid that the Comdex management
would sell the email list to spammers... unless
it was just one evil fish in the pond?
It probably wasn't deliberate. They probably sold the list to at least
one group that they shouldn't have, who then resold it far and wide.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com