public/private mail....Re: e: [at-l] perspective

[garyticknor@starpower.net (Gary Ticknor)]

Slowtoe, buddy, I've got to disagree with you on this one. This is not about
rights. This is about MANNERS. Netiquette, if you will. Certainly the possessor
has the physical means to pass a private letter on. But it is RUDE to do so.

IMHO, of course.

- Gary from Fairfax

Sloetoe wrote:

> > I agree. Please ask permission first if something is thought worth
> > sharing. Then abide by the author's wishes.
> > Thanks, Jan in NC
>
> ### Sorry, ladies, but this is garbage that gives license for someone to
> behave badly to you in private under the guise that it was not for public
> broadcast. This misplaced ethic is no older than the internet. Let's
> remember a much older ethic: when you send me a letter, and I open it up
> and make to read it, that letter is now *mine* to do with what I want.
> You've no rights on what I do with that letter...