SPAM

[Mark Wieder]

Timothy-

Thursday, June 30, 2005, 7:25:30 PM, you wrote:

TM> I never knew Google had the capacity to do this sort of thing. It's
TM> really troubling. I always thought an email list was equivalent to
TM> private email sent from one person to a bunch of others. Apparently
TM> it's not.

Listservs themselves are private email "clubs". However, anytime
anything is archived on the web it's publicly available. The list
archives do a good first-pass attempt at hiding email addresses and
web site urls, but it's impossible to stay always one step ahead of
clever spammer robots.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net