🚀 go-pugleaf

T. W. Monroe <cinnamon@uhuru.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>tina@MCS.COM (Tina Sikorski) writes:
>>Let's try this again:
>>Do not send me e-mail. I do not want to hear from you. I can't stop
>>you posting publicly and that's fine, but I DO NOT WANT E-MAIL from
>>you. Any more e-mail from you will be considered harrassment.
>Do you subscribe to any mailing lists?  Will you deny Gerry the
>ability to send mail to those lists because it will wind up in your
>mailbox?  Do you moderate any newsgroups?  If Gerry posts to such a
>group, will you threaten him with virtual lawyers?

There's a pretty clear difference between personal mail and discussion
groups routed through the mail.  If you're having difficulty
understanding it, consider magazines.  If someone under court order
not to contact you sends a letter to a magazine that you read,
which prints it, they are not in violation.  If you think that
mailing lists would be a problem, simply tell the relevant listserv
(for most lists) to 'digestify' messages.  That generally works
better anyway, since replies to lists can't be threaded anyway.

In my opinion, this is a pretty clear case of Gerry goofing.  If
you receive a letter telling you that further contact is explicitly
_not_ desired, don't contact the person.  You _might_ be able to
get away with something stating "Your letter of mm/dd/yy has been
received, and I will not be initiating any further communications.",
but that's about it.  If you're really upset about it, you could
publicly announce "At X's request, I will no longer be initiating
any communications between the two of us."

ajm
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Alan Miller \\ millera@mcs.com