Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:24:04 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: On Google and WSFA policy
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 03:36 PM 04/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
>
> > It's probably a good idea for everyone to do a Google search for their
> > own name, just to see what information is available online.  Chances
> > are, unless you have a very unusual name, there's no way for anyone to
> > tell which references actually apply to you anyhow.
>
>A search on your e-mail address may be more productive.  I don't think
>I've ever tried a search on my name; I know exactly what would happen.
>(Steve Smiths that I know about include a violinist for the Pasadena
>Symphony, a member of the Kennedy Clan, a tenor with Lawrence Welk, and
>two NFL football players.  Not to mention the Steve Smith in my Russian
>class in college.  We were dating the same girl; I imagine her phone
>messages were interesting.)
>
>For at least ten years, my signature block contained my office phone
>number.  In that time, I received one (1) phone call relating to
>something I'd posted.  That was from a guy who wanted to compliment me
>on some posts I'd made.
>
>Once, somebody took my signature block and put it under a composite
>message  made from one line I'd posted and a whole bunch of other
>peoples' stuff.  This was posted to a website that bills itself as "The
>Voice of the Religious Right" with a comment "Let's all call up this guy
>and tell him what we think of him and his kind".  Calls received --
>zero.
>
>Keith, I think the reason that you receive so much spam is that you are
>an active spam fighter.  You receive an order of magnitude more spam
>than anybody else I know.  I have never made an effort to hide my
>address, and I receive maybe 10 a day.  (Interesting psychology there --
>"punish" somebody by giving them more of what you're trying to sell.)

I probably receive 10 a year.

Candy