On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Bill Westfield wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
>> So nobody sees this as a privacy issue, with spam being only one  
>> effect of lack of privacy?
>
> No.  Email and email lists are by definition "signed" and  
> identified.  Any desired privacy can be implemented at the sender  
> (though I've started to wonder about all those nice "anonymous"  
> email accounts where pre-teens made up a username; it'll be a bit  
> embarassing to be known as "pinkkitty2009@yahoo.com" when you're job- 
> hunting!), but if eMail weren't so anonymous in the first place  
> there wouldn't BE so much of a spam problem.  You can probably get  
> your mail client to emit messages with an obfuscated From: address  
> (From: Olin Lathrop <piclist@mit.edu>), but I'm not sure whether  
> ISPs will accept such mail; From addresses that don't match account  
> info is a sign of spam...  (testing this with this message, BTW.)
>
> BillW

(test didn't work?  Got the private copy, but not the one sent to  
piclist...
Presumably because piclist doesn't let non-list-members send emails...)

FWIW, I get very little spam at the address I use for piclist (and  
other things.)
I don't know if that's Apple's doing or what...

BillW
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