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MISTICA: Directory of Internet Organizations

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 14:13:00 AST

Forwarded by "Michel J. Menou" <[email protected]>

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From: "Lawrence Hecht" <[email protected]>
Subject: Free Directory of Internet Organizations
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:42:57 -0400

Hello Association of Internet Researchers members!

I am sending you this note because IPPN has made its Directory available to
the public for free. I encourage you to use the Directory in your daily
activities. It can be accessed at
www.internetpublicpolicy.com/directory.cfm .

The Directory is an on-line database that can be downloaded to create
mailing lists. It includes complete contact listings and brief descriptions
for over 675 non-profit groups, trade associations, government, academic
institutions that work with telecommunications, electronic commerce, and
community technology issues. To ensure the timeliness of the information,
the Directory is updated bi-monthly to include new organizations and
different contact information.

I hope you find the Internet Public Policy Directory useful. Please pass on
this note as appropriate. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Lawrence Hecht
Internet Public Policy Network
919 18th Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
[email protected]
www.internetpublicpolicy.com
vox: 202.263.2932 fax: 202.263.2962

The Internet Public Policy Network (IPPN) is a network of Internet policy
experts that provide content and services dealing with telecommunications,
electronic commerce, and community technology issues.
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Note from D. Pimienta: This looks like a nice initiative but at a time when
"non profit spamming" is growing exponentially I wonder what have been
done to avoid that those automatically created mailing lists will not
aggravate the situation.

Due to the success of Mistica and the virtual presence of our web site we are
obliged to ask for unsubscription more that 3 times a week to good will
persons or groups who take the decision to subscribe us "for free" to
some kind of newsletter, taking for granted that we will be
interested or that we have 15 minutes to loose for unsubscribe (too
many times from their web and too often with troubles since they used
generic adresses such as <contact or [email protected]>).

I consider this is a real nuisance and that the principle of
"never subscribe anybody to a systematic mailing, but instead offer
the information for subscription and only once" should be strictly reinforced
and "netiquette" must be remember at least in the non profit segment of
the Internet!

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