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[ NNSquad ] E-Mail Address Terror Hits NNSquad Archive
Greetings. A few days ago, you may remember that I forwarded to this list an interesting item sent to me by Richard M. Smith. Today I received a plea from Richard for me to remove his name and e-mail address from that posting in the NNSquad archive, for fear of it exposing him to [the apparently unspeakable horrors of] additional spam by revealing his e-mail address to the robotic spam overlords. I receive vast numbers of items (like his) sent to my lauren@vortex.com address every day of that sort, including references to stories of interest. Unless those messages are obviously a private communication or are explicitly marked in some way, I normally consider it appropriate to forward them onward to venues of possible interest -- and up until now I've received no complaints about this. Personally, I believe that trying to hide e-mail addresses presents a marginal protection against spam at best -- sooner or later you're going to use those addresses, and once used they're liable to leak out, one way or another, even if you restrict their use to automated systems and the like. Be that as it may, while I wouldn't ordinarily modify the archives in this manner, I have honored Richard's request and explanation that he didn't expect the message to be shared (though there was no warning not to do so). But I did feel that an explanation to the list regarding this archive alteration was in order. In the future, if you're going to send me an external item that isn't meant for consideration for posting to the list, please be explicit in telling me so -- it will help to avoid confusion all around. OK, one more thing we have to do. You all received copies of that message from Richard and you can't be permitted to retain the memory of his address, so I want you to please stare at your screens and pay no attention to the bright flash that will appear shortly ... @ X @ X @ X @ Yes, the weather is very nice in L.A. today. Getting hot out here in the Valley, but that's what it does this time of year. Thanks for asking! --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator