Time: Mon Jul 21 10:07:53 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09639; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:57:28 -0700 (MST) 13:00:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:53:45 -0700 To: SafanNews@aol.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLF: Reducing Unwanted Email: An Unsolicited Proposal Cc: <eudora-win@wso.williams.edu> List-Software: LetterRip 2.0 by Fog City Software, Inc. List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@wso.williams.edu?subject=unsubscribe%20eudora-win> List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@wso.williams.edu?subject=subscribe%20eudora-win> Hi Dot, So, these two things would help a lot: 1. encourage people to use "Blind Copy" always Comment: this takes voluntary participation 2. modify list servers to suppress the sender's email address in messages which are broadcast to the list, by default; this can be overriden at the user's option Comment: this takes a coding change in the list server software Let me know what you think, after you have thought about it for a while. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com At 09:16 AM 7/21/97 -0400, you wrote: >THANKS PAUL. > >SAFAN uses all blind copies to its mailing list. > >HOWEVER, AOL has been guilty TWICE now of listing the BCC >on two of my recipients mail. > >They acted dumb when I called them about it. They said that I must >have made a mistake and hit the CC key. I told them that if I had done >that the recipient would have received the addresses with CC on them >and NOT BCC. They suggested I go back and read the instructions >on sending Blind Copies. I told them that if they did it again, that I >would sue them for a breach of privacy. (Ha - big talk...) > >I hate those LONG address lists. Evidently that is how we get all of >the JUNK mail. Of course, I can get all AOL addresses downloaded into >my address file - so .... > >Dot Bibee > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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