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To: Jacky AY who wrote (6642)	1/1/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Steve Robinett	Respond to of 13594

Jacky, What it means is that AOL don't want no outlaws rustlin' their cattle. They want them varmits all to theirselves. Best, -Steve

To: Jacky AY who wrote (6642)	1/2/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Jacky AY	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

Continued coverage on the cyber-terrorism story... ****AOL Not Backing Down On E-mail Threats 01/02/98 Newsbytes, Friday, January 02, 1998 at 15:13 CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1998 JAN 2 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha, Newsbytes. America Online [NYSE:AOL] is not about to change its position banning spam mail, despite threats to release e-mail addresses of more than half of all AOL subscribers. "Although we take their threat seriously, we will continue to take an aggressive stand against junk e-mail and will not change our position," AOL spokesperson Rich D'Amato told Newsbytes. The threat to post more than five million AOL subscriber e-mail addresses was made earlier this week by the National Organization of Internet Commerce. According to NOIC President Joe Melle, the Chino, California-based organization will release the e-mail addresses next Thursday, January 8. addresses on the Internet on Jan. 8, group president, Joe Melle, said Wednesday. Melle said NOIC originally planned to release about one million AOL member addresses, but upped the ante after threats of legal action from AOL. According to Melle, the option to receive spam, or junk e-mail, should be made by individual AOL members, and not the company, which has maintained a number of services to members for blocking junk e-mail. D'Amato, however, said AOL members already have decided against junk e-mail. "Our members have made it clear they don't want junk e-mail," D'Amato told Newsbytes. D'Amato said AOL members overwhelmingly support mail controls barring junk e-mail from entering their mailboxes, and continue to report additional junk e-mailings to AOL's support services. "Although spammers continually change their addresses to circumvent our blocking controls, we're blocking new junk e-mail addresses as quickly as we receive them from our members," D'Amato said. Melle, however, claims his company, TSF Marketing, and other members of NOIC, need the AOL addresses to market their junk e-mail services. According to Melle, his company would lose access to almost half its entire online database if AOL continues to bars access to its subscribers. Melle's company and other junk e-mailers collect their mailing lists from America Online's chat rooms and other areas where member e-mail addresses can easily be retrieved. Reported by Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com (19980102/Press & Reader Contact: Rich D'Amato, America Online, 703-265-1107 /AOL-2/PHOTO)