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To: Scumbria who wrote (73179)	2/8/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

The free PC came sooner than I expected. latimes.com; And you were complaining about CPU ids? Free-PC.com is offering computers to people who are willing to share their age, income, hobbies and other personal details that advertisers covet. In exchange for the free computer, recipients must agree to let the company monitor how they use it--including what they buy and where they go on the World Wide Web. "They're offering a Faustian bargain here," said Evan Hendricks, a privacy advocate and editor of the newsletter Privacy Times. "Everyone has to decide for themselves what's more important: a free computer, or what people learn about their lives from that computer."

To: Scumbria who wrote (73179)	2/8/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, RE: Free PC's What's the catch? The recipients will be asked to pay what many would consider an unsettling price: personal privacy. There's another parade for privacy you should lead, if this is the price for free PC's - then I guess the CPUID issue is over. Yeah, Intel! Where are those privacy advocates now?

To: Scumbria who wrote (73179)	2/8/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

My company got a free PC and printer from DHL three years ago !! We do a fair amount of business with DHL. For a shipment we enter the DHL forms on their computer, and when the form is complete not only is the form printed out, the DHL office is contacted via a modem and a pick-up is scheduled automatically. Typically within twenty minutes of hitting the ENTER key, the DHL driver shows up at our loading dock. Their computer makes it possible to track our shipments very easily. Effectively the free DHL computer effectively gives us a remote terminal attached to their mainframe. The free computer pays off for DHL since they dont have to hire personnel to receive our phone calls and then enter the data into their computer. This is an example of the future of E-Commerce.