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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:44:30 -0700
To: gordphil@gis.net
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: email and privacy: our voluntary program

Gordon,

Whenever someone send me email
which displays the list of recipients
in their "Cc:" line, I "forward" such
messages right back to them, with the
boilerplate message below.  You might
pass this message around to your several
contacts.

We recommend "Forward" instead of "Reply",
and use "Blind Copy" instead of "To:",
so the recipient gets to see a real
example, using their own message(s).

You might try an experiment by sending
a message with "Cc:" to yourself, then
respond back to yourself with the message
below, merged in front of the offending
message.

We think this is a very good voluntary
program for improving privacy on the
Internet.

/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com

copy:  Supreme Law School


boilerplate message follows:


Dear Friend,

With this message, we are launching a voluntary
program to improve privacy on the Internet, and
reduce the quantity of unwanted email which we
all receive.  We are staunch advocates of
self-government -- the best form of government!

We have decided to focus this effort on the
frequent use of email lists which are visible
to the recipient.  In Eudora Pro, this is done
by pasting a list of email addresses into the "Cc:"
field of a message.  See example(s) below.

Eudora Pro, like other modern email programs,
also has a blind copy feature, which is found 
in the "Bcc:" field instead.  This feature has
the result of suppressing the entire list, 
instead of displaying it to the recipient.
We used this feature to send this message to you.

Our voluntary effort now is to encourage people
like yourself to switch to blind copies, if and
when you decide to broadcast any message to 
a list of recipients.

As part of this program, we are also recommending
that list server software be modified, so that
the sender's email address is NOT displayed in
messages which are distributed to everyone on
any given email list.  This feature of list servers
would be the "default," which could be changed
by the user, but ONLY by the user.

If you have received what you might regard as
"unwanted" email from us recently, it is most
likely because your email address (and name)
were sent to us in a "Cc:" field.  

Please consider switching to blind copies, 
and pass this message along to your contacts 
who are adding your email address to their "Cc:" 
fields as well.

Thanks very much!

/s/ Paul Mitchell
Counselor at Law 
http://www.supremelaw.com

p.s.  Privacy is a fundamental Right.
See the Privacy Act for authority.




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