On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:18 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > On Mon, November 10, 2014 13:56, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Well, yeah... If I wanted to keep secrets, I wouldn't be sending them > over the internet at all. You don't really trust your software or other > third parties that much, do you? > > Read my signature. Hmmm, gmail conveniently collapses previously-seen content into an ellipse so that didn't jump out out me before. > The point is that it is not what I trust. It is what my correspondents do > with their mail irrespective of trust. And that is totally out of my control. > Nonetheless, we must take whatever steps we can to protect whatever residual > confidentiality there is. I don't get your point about gmail then. If you don't expect internet email to be secure in any case then you won't send secrets over it and it won't matter who archives, forwards, or searches it. This is all pretty obvious for public mail lists anyway and there's not that much point in trying to mix them with even business-level security. I prefer to have a completely separate account for list use although some companies might be so restrictive as to not let you use even web access to it from work machines. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com