"Thomas D. Hanlon" wrote: > Richard, > > I sympathize with your and with your position. > > Print your posting, and ask your employeer,/institution that it be made > part of your personnel/student record. Then, you are on notice that you > are not an at-work pornography reviewer. One cannot, legally, beheld > responsible for intrusions into one's mailbox, regardless, and dogs WILL > pee on your lawn, regardless... > > Protect yourself in the clinches. > > BTW, Was there ever any further communications with VW-Wolfsburg about > the birth certificates? > > Regards, > > Tom Hanlon > Palm Springs, CA > 84 Westfalia > > Richard Golen wrote: > > > Hi Listees, > > > > > > During the past few weeks the Vanagon list has been the recipient of > > tons of Spam. This morning I received an email which contained hard > > core pornographic images. I'm getting sick and tired of receiving this > > sort of crap from the list. Many of you have responded by saying: "if > > you don't like the spam, don't read it, delete it". In reality I do > > not find deleting an option for two reasons: > > > > 1. I find some of the subject lines offensive. Look I'm not a > > prude, and I can spout off "off-color" humor and remarks with the > > best of them. However I don't want this crap on a list I'm > > subscribed to. To me,spam is the equivalent of someone coming > > into my yard and urinating or defecating on my front lawn. I can > > turn a blind eye on it, but the fact is that someone has > > trespassed into my space. > > > > 2. This is the main point. Many of us are subscribed to this list > > through servers at our places of employment, schools we attend, > > etc. The fact of the matter is that there is no privacy in > > employer or educational institution email. An employer, > > university, etc., has access to the email regardless of when you > > down load it, whether you read it or not, or whether you delete > > it or not. In fact, depending on the archival system, a copy of > > that email may end up on archive which is accessable. > > > > Quite frankly I don't appreciate smut showing up on my employer's > > email system...PERIOD! Nor do I want to change may email address > > to an ISP ( I've had for more than 15 years) just because this > > list (which of the 6 or 7 I'm on is the only one which does not > > filter outside spam) doesn't filter spam. > > > > > > Thank you for reading this and considering these issues. > > > > > > > > Ric |
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