Back in the early nineties, I had a book called something like The Internet White Pages (I forget). It contained 100k email addresses. My friend had his email listed in it, and he’d use it as a flex. Then, Spam was invented.
I had a sort of internet Yellow Pages before search engines worked well enough. It was a monster list of URLs pointing to new and cool things to do on the internet.
Back in the early nineties, I had a book called something like The Internet White Pages (I forget). It contained 100k email addresses. My friend had his email listed in it, and he’d use it as a flex. Then, Spam was invented.
My email was in one of those.
I had a sort of internet Yellow Pages before search engines worked well enough. It was a monster list of URLs pointing to new and cool things to do on the internet.
I joined by the end of the nineties when we had “Yellow Pages” CDs and new metasearch engines. This feels like a repeat.
Did it actually contain identifying info, or just the addresses?
IIRC, it contained whatever finger returned. So, in my friend’s case his full name and email address.
Well that sucks.
Indeed. Especially given that they never asked the address owners. They just scraped them all.