Hi Listees,

During the past few weeks the Vanagon list has been the recipient of tons
of Spam. This morning I received an email which contained hard core
pornographic images. I'm getting sick and tired of receiving this sort of
crap from the list. Many of you have responded by saying: "if you don't
like the spam, don't read it, delete it". In reality I do not find deleting
an option for two reasons:
1. I find some of the subject lines offensive. Look I'm not a prude, and I
can spout off "off-color" humor and remarks with the best of them. However
I don't want this crap on a list I'm subscribed to. To me,spam is the
equivalent of someone coming into my yard and urinating or defecating on my
front lawn. I can turn a blind eye on it, but the fact is that someone has
trespassed into my space.

2. This is the main point. Many of us are subscribed to this list through
servers at our places of employment, schools we attend, etc. The fact of
the matter is that there is no privacy in employer or educational
institution email. An employer, university, etc., has access to the email
regardless of when you down load it, whether you read it or not, or whether
you delete it or not. In fact, depending on the archival system, a copy of
that email may end up on archive which is accessable.

Quite frankly I don't appreciate smut showing up on my employer's email
system...PERIOD! Nor do I want to change may email address to an ISP ( I've
had for more than 15 years) just because this list (which of the 6 or 7 I'm
on is the only one which does not filter outside spam) doesn't filter spam.

  Thank you for reading this and considering these issues.

Ric

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