Email distribution list? Text lists.
Everybody makes their choices.
There was NEVER a word about security for at LEAST the first year as I stumbled around the internet.
Discovering FreeRepublic at that time was a golden event.
.... and I attempted on line buying using my credit card, never believing the computer would rob me.
(I never lost anything on the internet sales thing)
But I was not THAT careful (nothing like today) about information. The moment your real name gets attached to an internet account, devious people can find you and yours.