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Re: [lojban] where the mailing lists lie

At 11:53 PM 4/19/02 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:08:03PM -0400, lojbab wrote:
> At 01:09 AM 4/19/02 -0600, Jay Kominek wrote:
> >On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, lojbab wrote:
> > > Not finding Yahoo Groups tolerable is their problem, more than it
> > > is ours.
> >
> >It'll be ours when Yahoo starts selling our names, addresses, etc.
>
> They can't sell what you don't give them. (Hint: they have no way to
> verify the truth of anything you enter into their data fields, other
> than your email address.

Ummm, who cares about anything other than our e-mail addresses?
Jay did, apparently (he mentioned income and marital status, which aren't even on Yahoo's form, though snail address and phone are).
We can't protect our email address unless we never post. Any evil corporation just subscribes, and collects the addresses of posters (and if those aren't somewhere in the header in order to protect against this, then we have no capability to reply to sender). 

lojbab