At 04:26 PM 8/7/2006, Fred Cisin wrote:
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.
I think it happened to SIGGRAPH lists, too. When I was exhibiting, we'd
routinely invent imaginary employees to consume our allocation of badges.
I'm still getting the oddest junk (paper and e-) mail for those imaginary people,
ten years later.
- John