[clue-talk] Linked In CLUE Group?

[Nate Duehr]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> I've only had one friend who really told me to not use their personal 
> email, and... we ended up just not communicating anymore.  I just 
> wouldn't send him things because every time I did, he'd complain that I 
> Cc'd a couple of other friends in addition to him, and *GASP* someone 
> else might get his email address!  Of course I wasn't going to just 
> disregard his request.  While I can respect the desire to reduce the 
> amount of spam you get, I really think some people go way overboard with 
> this whole "spammers haven't gotten my email yet" thing.

Yeah, understand.  Of course BCC works well for that type of 
"distribution" too, but... some people are just ultra-paranoid and think 
that spam isn't just going to happen in the current environment.  It is. 
  We have to change how we use e-mail and how we deliver it to keep up 
with the times, and I don't see any global movement toward doing that... 
so it probably won't get any better any time soon.

Interestingly, raising the price of things seems to give them more 
value.  As one example, while SMS spam happens, the fact that SMS costs 
most people real money per message -- spammers seem to avoid it since it 
would be socially unacceptable to almost everyone receiving an SMS spam 
to do business with them.  Maybe if e-mail were more expensive?  :-)

> The way the USPS spams me through physical mail bothers me way more.  
> Gmail is insanely good at filtering my mail.  I think it's way better 
> not to expect your email address itself to be "unknown" just like your 
> physical address isn't "unknown".

At least I don't get any spam for "male sexual enhancement pills" 
(trying to be politically correct here) in paper mail... haha.

Nate