Comments inline.... Greg KH wrote: > Mailing lists are generally public. But not always. You're making my point for me. :) The list FAQ should have a pointer to the archive if there is one. There should have been discussion or notification. James W. Abendschan should have asked if it was okay. > Who's to say I'm not running a > email harvester on the list, hiding as a real subscriber? Then you'd be flogged! > If you don't > personally know every person on the list, treat it as a public message. Well, actually, I treat it as an email that could be forwarded to F---edCompany.com. :) > 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 :) Ha! I hear ya. Check the goofball known as selam@private :) > 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?) Huh? I don't see how that would change anything since people weren't aware of the archive. > 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. Good point. I completely agree. However, I reserve the right to inform folks that their formerly pseudo-private emails are now available via Google and complain to the person <jwa@private> who felt it was okay to put up the archive without asking anyone. > You get sent spam that people want you to deal with? Yep. And other things. Spam filters have false positives. I can't afford to have heuristics decide an email regarding filtering spam is spam. > 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. Nifty, but not practical for my situation. Cheers, Scott > greg k-h __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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