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- From: waltoml@wkuvx1.bitnet
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Posting private email..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.004313.4110@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 00:43:13 CST
- References: <Bxo10K.4M7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov18.150853.10999@sei.cmu.edu> <BxxB24.5st@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov18.183131.26919@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.183131.26919@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
- > Carl M. Kadie writes:
- >
- >>>I should have said that the CONTENTS of the letter remain the
- >>>property of the author....
- >
- >>This is ambiguous. To the best of my understanding here is want is
- >>legal and illegal (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer)....
- >
- > Let's not lose sight of the fact that there was no legal issue
- > involved. It was strictly a netiquette issue; Dominick posted
- > my private e-mail to him without my consent or knowledge.
- > --
- > Stan Krieger All opinions, advice, or suggestions, even
- > UNIX System Laboratories if related to my employment, are my own.
- > Summit, NJ
- > smk@usl.com
-
- Stan et all.....
-
- If I post something here, I have waived my right NOT to keep it from
- going other places...I personally feel very humbled that several
- people use our postings as basis for discussion in their own
- communities away from the computerized lists and the mailing.
-
- If I send something to you, it becomes your property. You may,
- despite my personal appeal to you, print it and share it with whomever
- you wished to; store it and read it again at your own leisure; extract
- it and use it in a paper (as long as you attritt the source of your
- comment to me, otherwise it becomes libel (or is it the other?? I
- forget sometimes (*scratching bald spot on head*) ); or kill it.
-
- Therefore, if Dominick decides that the posting you sent to him should
- be "public knowledge", there's not much you can do about it.
-
- If *I* sent you or anyone else "private" e-mail, I assume that you
- will share it with others and if you wish, you may (as has been done
- to a lot of my postings in the past on other forums) resent it or
- extract it for your own usage. It's just like if I sent you a piece
- of paper with words on it.
-
- I look at electronic mail as an extension of the paper product we are
- trying to emulate. When I send something to you, it no longer becomes
- my property...it is yours. Likewise, when you send something to me,
- it becomes my property to do with it as I see fit.
-
- Unfortunately, Dominick forgot temporarily that "A Scout is Courteous"
- and should have thought about the illustration of the "golden rule"
- (which I have hanging in my office room, looking at me as I type
- this--"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" ) before he
- posted your private posting.
-
- IMHO, this is a standoff...so could we please talk about more
- "serious" issues like service stars and years-of-service pins instead
- please??
-
- Settummanque!
-
- Mike Walton (WALTOML@WKUVX1.bitnet)
- Greenwood, Kentucky
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