Hi Sylvia,

Yes, your email does appear on your posts in the archive.  The Conch-l
archive (http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/CONCH-L/CONCH-Larchive.html) includes
the same information as each subscriber receives.  Actually the "archive"
is a subscriber to the list.  This does make your email address more
available and you might receive more junk mail because of it.

I have to add that as the museum's system, network and web administrator my
email is all over our web site as well as being included on all computer
software/hardware information requests, purchases and warranty cards.
However, I don't receive a lot of junk snail mail or email.  The vast
majority of my email comes from the lists I am subscribed to and the
servers I manage (one of the servers reminds me of my Siamese cat - it
always has something to say).

Since it is so very easy to find peoples email addresses, using filters is
the best method of eliminating junk email.  Wouldn't a postal filter be
grand!

Amy


>Amy, your post brings to mind something I keep meaning to ask.
>
>As a courtesy, I have included my e-mail address in my signature so people
>can click on that to reply directly to me re a posting.
>
>Since this then goes into the archives, and anyone on the web has access, is
>this getting me on mailing and e-mail listings I don't want to be on?  I
>keep my e-mail address rather protected and have filters in place for
>unwanted e-mail.
>
>However, I have been receiving some unsolicited mailings (snail mail) re
>conchology.
>
>Does my e-mail address show up in the archives anyway, whether it is in my
>signature or not?
>
>Sylvia S. Edwards
>Huntsville, Alabama
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Amy Lyn Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:20 AM
>Subject: [CONCH-L] CONCH-L
>
>
><snip>>
>> Conch-l subscriber's should always consider what we send to the list,
>> because it is forwarded to approximately 400 people in over 35 different
>> countries, AND is archived on a web site that anyone anywhere at any time
>> can read.
><snip>


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