Rod,
My [email protected] email address gets a spam email message every 2 to 3
seconds... literally thousands per hour... all of it goes into a spam folder
and good spam sorting software on the email server helps me figure what is
crap and what is not... End of the day I am deleting a lot of spam... If
someone were to go after the companies who are advertisng the drugs,
diplomas and sex services then it mifght help curb it. I feel that a
complete overhaul of how email works wouold be the answer, since you can
currently send from and have the reply to address be different. A lot of the
spam I gets looks as if it is coming to me from me... but buried in the
header I find that it comes from Korea or China...
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Goke" <[email protected]>
To: "TexasCavers" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rod Goke" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:04 AM
Subject: [Texascavers] Can TSA be trusted with email addresses?
All this talk about electronic vs. paper publication of the Texas Caver
reminds me of a related issue:
Is it safe to give your email address to TSA?
For years TSA has been asking for our email addresses on the membership
renewal forms, and I have been refusing to give them mine. During this same
period, however, I have been providing my email address (along with mailing
address and phone numbers) to the UT Grotto for publication in their "UT
Grotto Phone List". Why is it that I have felt that my email address was
sufficiently safe with the UT Grotto but not with TSA? The answer is that
the "UT Grotto Phone List" is published only in paper form, where email
addresses and other personal information is not likely to be harvested by
spammers, telemarketers, search engines, etc.
I don't have that kind of confidence in TSA, however, because for years,
I've heard various people within TSA advocating expanded use of digital
publication without adequately considering the negative consequences of what
they are advocating. Most disturbing has been the proposal I've heard from
time to time that TSA publish its membership list information
electronically, perhaps by placing it on a web site. This might be cheap and
convenient for TSA to implement and for TSA members to use, but it also
could make our personal information much more vulnerable to automated
harvesting by those who would use it in ways we never intended. Once our
email addresses, cell phone numbers, etc. have been harvested from a
digitally published list, there would be no cheap and convenient way to undo
the damage. How can we be confident that the continuing push towards digital
publication within TSA will not lead to ill considered digital publication
of email addresses and other information vulnerable to automated harvesting?
Rod
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