On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:13:06PM -0700, Scott Elam wrote: > I think that was my point - no, I don't want to participate in a > "public" group. If I wanted that I'd be on Use(less)Net. I prefer to > control who has access to my email address. Mailing lists are generally public. Who's to say I'm not running a email harvester on the list, hiding as a real subscriber? If you don't personally know every person on the list, treat it as a public message. This motto has helped me out immensely, now that my old alt.surfing and alt.skateboard posts from the late 1980's are now public in the Google archive :) Besides, what's the use of a public forum, if people don't participate in a public way (yes, you could argue about the whole pseudonym style of forum, but how do I know your name is "Scott" anyway?) Let go of your "feelings of control" over your email address, unless you want to just filter on everyone you do not know in the first place. > Unfortunately I can't use tools like SA as it may filter email that > people expect me to deal with. You get sent spam that people want you to deal with? SA works great, you don't have to have it delete all of the stuff it tags as spam, it can be sent to a different folder, for later viewing. It also has a very flexible "white list" feature to handle stuff from people you know are "good" and you accept stuff that might look like spam from. greg k-h
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