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In article <1992Nov18.183131.26919@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
> Carl M. Kadie writes:
> 
>>>I should have said that the CONTENTS of the letter remain the
>>>property of the author....
> 
>>This is ambiguous. To the best of my understanding here is want is
>>legal and illegal (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer)....
> 
> Let's not lose sight of the fact that there was no legal issue
> involved.  It was strictly a netiquette issue; Dominick posted
> my private e-mail to him without my consent or knowledge.
> -- 
> Stan Krieger                 All opinions, advice, or suggestions, even
> UNIX System Laboratories     if related to my employment, are my own.
> Summit, NJ
> smk@usl.com

Stan et all.....

If I post something here, I have waived my right NOT to keep it from
going other places...I personally feel very humbled that several
people use our postings as basis for discussion in their own
communities away from the computerized lists and the mailing.

If I send something to you, it becomes your property.  You may,
despite my personal appeal to you, print it and share it with whomever
you wished to; store it and read it again at your own leisure; extract
it and use it in a paper (as long as you attritt the source of your
comment to me, otherwise it becomes libel (or is it the other?? I
forget sometimes (*scratching bald spot on head*) ); or kill it. 

Therefore, if Dominick decides that the posting you sent to him should
be "public knowledge", there's not much you can do about it.  

If *I* sent you or anyone else "private" e-mail, I assume that you
will share it with others and if you wish, you may (as has been done
to a lot of my postings in the past on other forums) resent it or
extract it for your own usage.  It's just like if I sent you a piece
of paper with words on it. 

I look at electronic mail as an extension of the paper product we are
trying to emulate. When I send something to you, it no longer becomes
my property...it is yours.  Likewise, when you send something to me,
it becomes my property to do with it as I see fit.  

Unfortunately, Dominick forgot temporarily that "A Scout is Courteous"
and should have thought about the illustration of the "golden rule"
(which I have hanging in my office room, looking at me as I type
this--"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" ) before he
posted your private posting.  

IMHO, this is a standoff...so could we please talk about more
"serious" issues like service stars and years-of-service pins instead
please??

Settummanque!

Mike Walton  (WALTOML@WKUVX1.bitnet)
Greenwood, Kentucky