In the early days of Usenet, the vast bulletin-board-like network of public sites where online denizens do their opining, many people's postings included a warning that " the opinions expressed are the writer's alone and not those of his employer, " whose identity was obvious in the poster's Net address.
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Several people posting messages said they believe the change will make it easier for Verizon to monitor their e-mail, and one said, " It is bound to be merely a hassle to legitimate customers and ineffective against big spammers " who may be able to create phony verizon . net addresses.
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Robert F . Shannon of Hamilton, who said he has two boxes of useless business cards with mediaone . net addresses and two more boxes with attbi . com, said : " Maybe when they start losing a substantial number of customers, somebody will wake up and realize this is bad policy ."
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In addition to his personal hassle, Scott J . Plotkin, a software engineer from Pelham, said his wife Amy, an illustrator, had just taken out a $ 3, 500 advertisement with her mediaone . net address in a popular directory of illustrators lasly change our Internet provider, " but telephone-based digital subscriber line service is not available in their rural town near the Quabbin Reservoir.
