Re: [icann-eu] 10.000 PIN codes found....

["Alan Lenton" <alan@ibgames.com>]

Actually, there is probably nothing sinister in it - a lot of people
(especially Americans) have a strong - almost ideological - dislike of
giving their real addresses on line. It's perfectly possible that many of
these returns were generated by people giving deliberately false addresses,
because they didn't realise what the addresses were going to be used for.

Alan Lenton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harald Alvestrand" <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
To: "Marc Schneiders" <marc@schneiders.org>
Cc: <icann-europe@fitug.de>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [icann-eu] 10.000 PIN codes found....


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> > > I stuck my head into ICANN's offices while I was in LA.
> > > In the At Large Membership office, she (it's one person!) has stacked
up
> > > approximately 10.000 PIN code envelopes, all returned from the post
office
> > > and stamped with some variant of "unknown address".

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> the addresses I looked at looked ordinary to me, but failed to arrive. But
> it was a very small sample (2).
> I got my PID, so for my address it worked fine, but I don't remember the
> webform.
> OTOH, 7% error rate may not be too bad - don't know if we have anything to
> compare it to; people who accept requests for holiday catalogs over the
Web
> can probably tell you the hit/miss rate they experience.

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> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
> +47 41 44 29 94
> Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no