>Do you really expect privacy in a public mailing list ?


Yes I do expect a certain level of privacy, And contrary to your comment, I
bet you do too. All the automation and control you describe below reaffirms
that by using these packages you do seek a certain element of control and
privacy.

I thought the Csound list was a 'subscribed to' list and not a general
public list. You choose to subscribe to it to receive news pertaining to
Csound related matters and not much else.





>Per Villez writes:
> > If indeed nothing can be done to stop persistent nuisance like this I would
> > certainly opt for flaming the nuisance, but how do you know that it won't
> > invite the same reaction back.
>
>What about using a mail filter program ? The commercial mails I received
>through
>this list always (right?) contain words like 'sex', 'adult' and so on.
>Using e.g. procmail one can extract (and send back) mails containing
>these words AND having a field Sender: owner-csound-outgoing@noether.ex.ac.uk
>in the header. Well, we have to agree not to talk about sex(sounds) in
>this arena :)
>Of course the mail filter may be applied by the list maintainer instead.
>
> > All this just goes to highlight how insecure
> > privacy is on the net and makes subcribing to this list completely
>
>???
>Do you really expect privacy in a public mailing list ?
>
>More general: Having an (email) address makes you a potential addressee.
>But different to snail mail you may use automated email processors/reflectors.
>So privacy is more secure on the net than elsewhere!
>
> > redundant, anybody can pop in and leave their rubbish behind.
>
>That's life.
>
>Oliver