26 Jun
2002
26 Jun
'02
9:30 p.m.
Thus spake "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauislanwanman.com>
Your proprietary information is on someone else's server and it's up to them not to 'use' it.
There are IM products which a company can set up internally for exactly this reason. For public IM servers, you're not obligated to give "proprietary information" other than your email address.
PSTN doesn't keep your info on a server or backed up somewhere.
I'm quite sure the telco has records of who I am and where I live, and they "use" that information on a regular basis to bill me. They also sell the information to others and a variety of other things they're allowed to do by law. Yahoo and AOL are benign by comparison. S