Interex membership list for sale

[Doc Shipley]

Stan Sieler wrote:
> Re:
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>>A California bankruptcy court will sell Interex's membership database to the
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> The mailing list ostensibly had about 100,000+ names on it.
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> There were 3 bidders: #1 (Genisys), #2 anonymous, and #3 anonymous.
> Bidding started at about $15,000, and ended with an anonymous
> buyer getting it for $65,000.  At that point, the successful bidder's
> identity was revealed.
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> Quick...who'd pay that much?
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> Nope...not IBM (my first guess).
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> HP.
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> Yes, HP paid $65,000 for a list of their own EX-customers!
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   I have to wonder if that isn't pure proactive damage control on the 
part of HP.

   Even if they burn that list (figuratively speaking), $65,000 is dirt 
cheap compared to the cost of a single nuisance suit blaming HP for 
letting someone's contact info out.  Even with HP this far back up the 
chain, something like that could easily happen.


	Doc