re:Just how scummy is Ziff-Davis....

[Charles Behney <charlesaugust@theriver.com>]

> Just how scummy is Ziff-Davis....
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>      To: "am-info@essential.org" <am-info@essential.org> 
>      Subject: Just how scummy is Ziff-Davis.... 
>      From: Hans Reiser <reiser@ricochet.net> 
>      Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:57:09 -0800 
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> While we are discussing the morals of Ziff-Davis.... I regularly get
> letters from them stating that I owe them money for subscriptions I
> never asked for, sometimes after getting a magazine or two in the mail.
> Usually they threaten to use a collection agency.
> 
> Does anyone else have this happen to them?  Is it some individual
> signing me up for random magazines, or does ZD do this, pretending that
> people have subscribed, as a matter of policy?  How deeply scummy are
> they, I wonder?
> 
> Hans

Yes, Hans. I signed up for one free issue, from several publishers, over
at lizst (sp?), and I got several invoices BEFORE I got my first issues. 
I've meant to unsubsribe, but its a hassle writing 8 letters over this
trivial thing. I complained about the practice to the liszt guys, and
they played dumb.

There is no such thing as a free magazine on the web, no free lunches,
and no browsers. 

This is the equivalent of 'slamming,' taking mailists off the net, and
then doing autosubscriptions for suckers...

CAB
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