Bob Keefer wrote:
> This is not a valid argument; go to www.listbot.com and start your own
> free list there.
And add all the members to a SPAM list?
No thanks, I doubt most people would appreciate that very much.
> Why are you posting your private problems with e-mail to the list? Does
> your system not have a way to delete mail unread?
Yes.
But I don't do so.
Again, for the last time, if it is a response to a message IN this list
it should be sent TO this list. If a person doesn't't want it public, they
have no business sending it in the first place.
Is that _really_ so difficult to understand?
> I often write to people off-list if the topic is one at (a) would not
> normally be a subject of the list or (b) I perceive it as something that
> the person I'm writing to might be/ought to be embarrassed about. Just
> because someone else is rude enough to use the list for non-list
> business doesn't mean you should follow suit.
Then you shouldn't respond at all!
People have a right to privacy--when you carry list communications to the
private level you invade that privacy.
> No one said you weren't being harassed, just that you are complicit in
> that harassment. It's not clear to me why this harassment would be
> list business, or what a list-owner could do about it anyway; throwing
> someone off the list isn't going to do anything to stop private e-mail.
No one is _suggesting_ that Bill do anything about it at all. Learn to
read! I simply stated that I would forward ALL future messages from that
individual which involved list messages TO the list. If he doesn't want
them here, there's an easy answer--don't write them in the first place!
> If you delete a message unread, how does it harass you?
In other words if a woman is receiving sexually offensive material, she
should simply delete it too?
Let's all make the victim responsible for the problem, ok?
Sheesh!
> If the mail
> becomes so voluminous as to overflow your mailbox, contact the ISP of
> the offending party. If you don't know how to set up filters for your
> mailer, as someone who can help you do so; you won't even know you're
> -getting- the offending e-mail that way! If you simply delete
> someone's' mail unread, I doubt they will write for long.
I really don't need a lecture on how to use a mailer--I've been
participating on email lists since the BITNET days.
From my perspective your views are neither reasonable nor well thought
out. If a message originates in a list that is where ALL responses belong.
Period. Not in a kill file. Not in a trash can. In the list where others
can see the character of the people they are communicating with in the
open.
> How is sending e-mail infringing on your rights of privacy? Your example
> of e-mail that might be sexual harassing does not make clear to me how
> it would be an invasion of privacy.
Then there is no point in continuing this conversation. You have no
concept of rights.
Rick
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Rick Adams
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