Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:43:02 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Never ever send Pavel private mail unless you want him to publish it. |
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Tim Smith wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > >>I'm under the impression that postcards do not carry an expectation of >>privacy due to their readability during transmission. I'd expect that >>email would be found to have the similar lack of expectation were it >>to be tested in court. > > > That would cover disclosing information from email, but it wouldn't cover > publishing copies of email. The general opinion from lawyers and law > students, when this has been discussed on misc.legal, has been that email > would be treated similarly to regular mail. So, copying the entire thing to > a mailing list or usenet would probably be a copyright violation. Quoting > parts of it as part of an argument would probably be fair use. > > It's almost always considered extremely rude to unilaterally take a private > argument public, which should be enough to stop civilized people, regardless > of the legal issues.
Rude in general - _assuming_ the writer is decent.
If someone ever send me a letter I consider rude or otherwise hostile enough I will publish it in order to expose the writer as the bad guy he is. That hasn't ever happened, but mail sent to me is mine - I can do with it whatever I want. Nobody should be able to harass via (e)mail and expect that their victim will protect them by keeping their dirty little secret. I certainly won't.
Wether such action is warranted in this case is another question though.
Helge Hafting
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