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- From: beckley@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Jeff Beckley)
- Subject: Re: Quoting Someone Else's Private e-mail (was: abortion)
- Message-ID: <beckley.724969257@qualcom>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <beckley.724632483@qualcom> <1992Dec18.002635.23801@watson.ibm.com> <beckley.724641253@qualcom> <1992Dec18.193031.22216@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:20:57 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- steven@advtech.uswest.com ( Steve Novak) writes:
-
- >> = (Jeff Beckley) writes:
- >>> = (Larry Margolis) writes:
-
- >>>Would your opinion about this be any different if the original poster had
- >>>stated:
- >>> I want you to stop sending me abusive email. If you persist, I will feel
- >>> free to post it to the net.
-
- >>No different. Two wrongs don't make a right. If the original poster has a
- >>problem with abusive email, then (s)he should take up the matter with the
- >>sys admin of the person sending the abusive email. Just because someone is
- >>breaking mail ettiquette doesn't give you the right to break news etiquette.
-
- >C'mon Jeff, 'lax up a little. These etiquette guidelines are just that:
- >guidelines.
-
- The problem with this attitude is that it gives free reign for anyone to
- break the rules. "Hey, they're not really *rules*, just guidelines. So I
- can ignore them if I choose."
-
-
- >In Larry's scenario, the e-mail idiot has been warned.
-
- >When I get *overland* mail, of ANY type, I can show it to whomever I please.
- >Are you saying e-mail is different?
-
- Sure, there are no laws to prevent you from doing this. But, IMHO, this is
- not being very respectful of the sender. It's not only my HO, but many others
- as well since it managed to get into netiquette. Usenet (and to some degree,
- the Internet) is an anarchy, which means you can do whatever you please, but
- the anarachy ceases to be useful when there is disregard for the
- "guidelines."
-
- Although there's not a good analogy with snail-mail, if the sender intended
- for everyone to read the message, (s)he would have posted it to the newsgroup
- and not sent personal email.
-
- (btw, William Safire's "On Language" column a couple of months back talked
- about the problem of referring to regular-old-post-office-mail now that the
- term "mail" is often used for "email." An interesting little article.)
-
-
- >Wrong. The one GETTING the mail can do what they like; it's now THEIR MAIL.
- >The sender better not abuse his/her *privilege* in sending e-mail, or be
- >prepared to be exposed. Let the "exposer" face net opinion on whether or not
- >a particular e-mail deserved to be made public or not. This whole problem
- >sounds self-correcting to me.
-
- I agree with letting the net judge the "exposer," but the problem is that
- to enable the net to judge it must see the message. It's sort of a
- Catch-22: to determine whether or not something should be exposed you have
- to expose it.
-
- In the long run, the problem is self-correcting. Those that continually
- abuse the guidelines by posting inappropriate personal email will eventually
- be excommunicated by the net. But in the short run, innocent people may be
- hurt.
-
- --
- beckley@qualcomm.com "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire
-