Amy:

There is a sort of "postal filter" available.  One can write to Direct
Marketing Association, PO Box 9014, Farmingdale NY 11735-9014 and request
that your name be excluded from their listings.  This can reduce the number
of junk mail solicitations you receive from national companies.  Joan

At 10:36 AM 8/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>----- 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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