> If you embroil yourself in some debate you don't want, you will still see the subsequent posts, as you continue to be Cc:'d on the debate. CC's reach you dire

> If you embroil yourself in some debate you don't want, you will still see the subsequent posts, as you continue to be Cc:'d on the debate. CC's reach you directly, bypassing the robot. This is where client side filtering comes in. Mail and News clients come with sophisticated filtering capabilities. For example, if you keep getting CC'd in a flame war type thread, you could filter replies based on the From header, the Subject header, and/or even checking for certain terms in the message body.