Actually, I of course know how to distinguish list emails from
SPAMs. What I meant was Gerry sends out broadcast like sending
SPAMS. There is no real difference between Gerry and SPAMers
in terms of sending large volume of emails over the internet.

Web based forums don't distribute anything over the net. You
click a bookmark and you see all posts there. If you don't
click the bookmark there is no traffic associated with you.
No, I don't mean something like Yahoo Groups. I am talking
about something like:

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum13/

Take a peek yourself. You will understand why I regarded the list
like a 486 processor still being used today.

Again I understand how people will resist changes. I am sure
many of list members are participants of many modern as well as
old fashioned forums. I am one and happen to think web based forum
being far superior. Of course it's just my opinion.

David

--- Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:

> David Kao wrote:
>  > How do you distinguish such broadcasts from SPAMs?
>
> I created a "Vanagon List" folder and use email rules and filters so
> that all list mail goes automatically to that folder.  It never gets
> mixed up with spam.
>
> I think you're being a little too general in your assessment that those
> that like the list mail are not forward thinkers.  I for one, bought an
> Apple I computer back in 1976 when it came in a baggy with instructions
> for how to build a case if you wanted one and instructions on how to
> hook it to a tape recorder for storing programs as personal disk drives
> were not yet available.  I've been upgrading ever since.
>
> Mike
>