The list is a community.

If you want to wear a mask and hide from the list members then there
are solutions you can implement on your end to resolve your personal
privacy issues.  Don't come to the list and ask EVERYONE to wear a
mask just because you have some privcay issues that can be resolved
simply by wearing a mask yourself.

As a public list one must recognize that if one participates they may
be bothered by others inside and outside the community merely because
of their participation in the community.

There are solutions to limit or eliminate the external exposure at the
client side, which I argue is the best place to deal with it.

The community is founded on people, and anything that puts walls
between community members must necessarily negatively affect the
community.

But at the end of the day, ALL these issues can be solved at the
client end with no change to the list for those few people who cannot
deal with the side effects and exposure that belonging to the list
entails.

-Adam
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