Douglas, I'm confused.  Are you just using AUTOCAT as an example?
 
I can see why one might want it to be REALLY private if it were
the CHILMOLE list for child molesters or something, but even
gay-libn and bisexu-l aren't totally private.  Are the catalogers
of the library world getting so private and paranoid that they
don't even want anyone to know that they are on the list, or what
the list is about?  o-)
 
Or has AUTOCAT just kept the old title and changed to KINKYLIB since
I was last on it?
 
cyclops, who really does NOT understand why anyone wouldn't want folks
          to know what a NON-PRIVATE list is even about
 
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