"Thomas D. Hanlon" wrote:

> Richard,
>
> I sympathize with your and with your position.
>
> Print your posting, and ask your employeer,/institution that it be made
> part of your personnel/student record. Then, you are on notice that you
> are not an at-work pornography reviewer.  One cannot, legally, beheld
> responsible for intrusions into one's mailbox, regardless, and dogs WILL
> pee on your lawn, regardless...
>
> Protect yourself in the clinches.
>
> BTW, Was there ever any further communications with VW-Wolfsburg about
> the birth certificates?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Hanlon
> Palm Springs, CA
> 84 Westfalia
>
> Richard Golen wrote:
>
> >  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