Seriously. How many more times?<\/p>\n
Me:<\/b> (To some near stranger.) Please don’t put me on a mailing list without asking first. And if you must send mailings to multiple recipients, please, for the sake of everybody’s privacy, use bcc or create an alias for the group that hides the addresses.<\/p>\n
Other person:<\/b> (If the mailings are political.) I can’t believe you don’t want to receive My Glorious Truths!!!! You’re a big phony! You don’t care anything about freedom!!!!!! Okay then. I’ll take you off my mailing list! You don’t deserve to be on it anyhow!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n
Other person:<\/b> (If the mailings are non-political.) I didn’t put you on a mailing list! I just sent a joke to a bunch of friends. Well, guess now I know you just don’t have a sense of humor.<\/p>\n
Other person:<\/b> (Alternative answer.) What’s bcc? If you want me to do that, you’re going to have to tell me how.<\/p>\n
Very occasionally, I actually get a “Sorry. I won’t do it again.”<\/p>\n
Sigh. I wrote “Libertarians and the Privacy of Friends”<\/a> fourteen years ago. Bill St. Clair kindly archives it and it still occasionally turns up elsewhere. No, I don’t expect the whole world to have read My Glorious Truths. But. <\/p>\n “Privacy of Friends” was written back in the dark ages, when many people thought these Intertubz and the whole email thingie were newfangled playtoys. Some ignorance of privacy and netiquette was perhaps to be expected. Back. Then. By now, people should have become much more skilled and aware in their computer use — especially with horrific privacy breaches (latest — and relatively minor — example<\/a>) and malware horror stories constantly in the news.<\/p>\n There just ain’t no excuse any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seriously. How many more times? Me: (To some near stranger.) Please don’t put me on a mailing list without asking first. And if you must send mailings to multiple recipients, please, for the sake of everybody’s privacy, use bcc or create an alias for the group that hides the addresses. Other person: (If the mailings are political.) I can’t believe you don’t want to receive My Glorious Truths!!!! You’re a big phony! You don’t care anything about freedom!!!!!! Okay then. I’ll take you off my mailing list! You don’t deserve to be on it anyhow!!!!!!!!!! Other person: (If the mailings…<\/p>\n