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In article <32137f61.8384213@news.albany.net>,
Daniel A. Norton <danorton@albany.net> wrote:
>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



I, for one, would prefer that each of you continue your 
argument privately (through e-mail).

Thank you,


Herb

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 Herbert I Brown  hibrown@math.albany.edu  (518) 442-4640
 Math Dept,  The Univ at Albany,  Albany, NY 12222  
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