On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Tracey McCartney wrote: > > Social engineering, of course, is the best way to solve this problem. > But until the bad people meekly fall into line or are caught and > removed from the list, I've been wondering about technological > solutions to this problem. > > So, e-mail geeks - got any ideas? I'm wondering if headers can be > tweaked in a way that causes forwarded posts or replies to them to be > copied to me. Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't that be cool? Perhaps. Its impossible though. There's nothing to prevent someone from copying the body of a message from your list and pasting it into a new email message, or printing a copy of the message and plastering it in every newspaper in town. The bottom line is simple: DO NOT SAY IN EMAIL ANYTHING YOU WOULD NOT WANT THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE.