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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Of Timo's email quoting on the news
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.090503.23053@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:05:03 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- -From ts@uwasa.fi Fri 8 Jan 18:05:00 1993
- -Subject: The public nature of garbo.uwasa.fi questions and answers
-
- This file is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/private.txt
-
- Dear Fellow Computer Users,
-
- I feel it advisable to inform the gentle garbo.uwasa.fi users of the
- following matter concerning privacy / publicity. I get very much
- email concerning garbo.uwasa.fi files and problems and UseNet news.
- As an FTP archive site moderator I have to answer countless
- questions and views from the users practically every day. Quite
- often these questions or views are of general interest or
- applicability, and I often make selected questions and my answers
- public in the /pc/pd2/post*.txt information files, and sometimes
- even on the UseNet news. The same goes for useful user feedback on
- the programs on garbo. Furthermore I may have to converse about
- some users' questions with my fellow moderators at garbo.uwasa.fi
- and other FTP sites.
-
- This means that unless prominently and unambiguously stated
- otherwise by the sender (at the very beginning of the message,
- please), or very obvious from the context or the contents, I
- consider all email, all text in the upload announcements, and all
- file uploads publicly available and publicly publishable material.
- I simply cannot and will not take the time to ask for the sender's
- confirmation. I hope you understand, and if you find this
- unacceptable, then there is unfortunately no other possibility than
- not to send email to me.
-
- Please particularly note that if you have kindly uploaded programs
- to garbo.uwasa.fi, you should never put anything confidential in
- your upload announcements to the garbo moderators. If you have
- something confidential to say about your upload, please use separate
- email for that, and mark very, very clearly that you message is not
- for public distribution.
-
- The reason for these practices is that we get so much email,
- uploads, announcements, questions and views, that if we conversed
- back and forth with each and everyone about their material and
- messages, we would be totally swamped because we already are
- stretched as we are. I have to organize matters in a rational way
- to be able to perform the moderator's functions, and making public
- the interesting questions from users and the answers to their
- queries is part of this.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
- ..................................................................
- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
-