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maz@magik.albany.net (Matthew Zahorik) wrote:
>  Do you regularly violate someone's privacy by publically broadcasting 
>private email without permission?  Shame.

No.  Only when someone makes false accusations against me in public
would I ever do so, and then only in rebuttal.  I wish you hadn't
falsely accused me, but you left me little choice.

>Walk into your local chapter of the association of engineers.  Ask them to
>open their filing cabinets, dump everything.

I'm not asking you or anyone else to "dump everything."  I am asking
that officers of area ISPs make there correspondence with their
"competitors" public.

>It's a matter of principle, Daniel.  What conceivable reason should you
>have for prying into private conversations?

I have absolutely no interest in your private conversations.  I do feel,
however, that there is a conflict with the public interest for
ostensible competitors to be in collaboration with one another without
the public being able to know the details of such collaboration.

It was clear to me that once I made this public not only wouldn't I get
on the list, but it would be easy enough for folks to evade that list,
anyway.  As I wrote, I felt I had a moral and ethical obligation to make
public my knowledge of the list and your desire to keep the
correspondence secret.  As far as I'm concerned, I have fulfilled that
obligation and the issue has passed.

You have yet to offer a convincing argument that any of the
correspondence needs to remain secret, but instead prefer to argue your
perceived rights of personal privacy, which I don't argue with, anyway.

--
Daniel A. Norton
danorton@albany.net