Rick,
Just for kicks I put your name and email address into Google.
(www.google.com) For the name I got 429 hits. Most of the first ones for
Some Web sites I didn't take the time to look at. For the Email address I
got 6, most from the Spridget list and one from a Netcom page about UDP. For
"Rick Snover" I got 28 hits.
So maybe the clubs did sell the info, but the google search shows there is
more than one way to skin a cat.
Larry
PS Wow another Computer guru on the list ;-)
On 2/21/01 10:20 AM, "Rick Snover" <rsnover@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I've received a ton of responses, too many for individual replies, so
> thought I'd attempt to summarize:
>
> At 05:15 PM 2/20/01 -0800, Rick Snover wrote:
>> How many of y'all who, like me, have never had any contact whatsoever with
>> Healey Surgeons received their flyer/catalog in the mail this past weekend?
>> I wasn't particularly displeased to get their ad...
>
> Many folks seemed to misinterpret my post as a complaint against Healey
> Surgeons. It wasn't. Like I tried to say (unsuccessfully I guess), this was
> one piece of unsolicited mail that wasn't unwelcome, and when I eventually
> do need parts I'm sure I'll find it a valuable resource. Again, I'm not
> criticizing Healey Surgeons here. They merely sought to get the most for
> their advertising dollar by acquiring focused lists of potential customers.
> Sound business practice.
>
>> ...but I DO want to know how they got my address....
>
> It's the purveyors of those lists that I'm displeased with. My complaint is
> that someone I'd trusted with personal information had apperently given it
> out, or sold it, without my permission. Who else already has my address or
> will get it, and who might they then give or sell it to? How much more
> unsolicited mail, increasingly off-topic, can I expect in the future?
>
> Anyway, I think the mystery's solved: Inan of Healey Surgeons wrote me that
> he had "talked the clubs into selling me the membership." Clubs, plural.
>
> Well, I guess I won't be quitting both national clubs over this, especially
> since it appears to be too late for me to exercise any control over my own
> mailbox, but I hope they'll both consider allowing members to specify that
> their info is to be kept private, for internal club use only. I don't see
> any sort of "keep private" option on either national club's renewal form.
> If there was, I would certainly have selected it. We (AHCSD) keep our
> members' info private. I guess I kinda expected the same from other
> organizations. Silly me.
>
> Oh, well. Thanks to everyone for your feedback.
>
> Rick
>
Larry Macy
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