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From: ronald@ibmpcug.UUCP (Ronald Khoo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.misc
Subject: Re: How can my private e-mail be read?
Message-ID: <10925@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 19:23:02 GMT
References: <337@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1989Jun13.175158.15024@cs.rochester.edu> <2750@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: ronald@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Ronald Khoo)
Followup-To: news.misc
Organization: or, conversely, chaos. (quick: who did I steal that from?)
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[This issue has been extensively debated before in the news.* groups.
  I have redirected followups to news.misc as it has NOTHING to do
  with indian culture..
  How about soc.culture.news or soc.culture.usenet ? :-)
]

I believe the general consensus of the net was that private e-mail
was PRIVATE email remains the property of the SENDER, taking into
account precendents from letter mail.  Should this point not be
made in one of the news.announce.newusers articles? I just looked
again and didn't see it there...

In article <2750@wpi.wpi.edu> bmaruti@wpi.wpi.edu (B Maruti) writes:
%In article <1989Jun13.175158.15024@cs.rochester.edu>, raman@cs.rochester.edu (Rajeev Raman) writes:
%> 
%> "THOU SHALT NOT POST PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT PERMISSION*"
%> 
%> rr
%> 
%> * - Unless unsolicited.. in this case, Mr. Bhatia, I think you (indirectly)
%> solicited it by taking a public stand on the matter.
%> -- 
%> Rajeev Raman 	
%
%   I disagree.  I think the recepient has every right to publish the
%   e-mail communication he receives. S/he becomes the owner of it once
%   it takes up space on his/her disk.  This rule is especially useful
%   when the sender of the communication is a stranger,  or when
%   the mail is unpleasant (Reference: the mail from A. J. to Asjeet
%   Lamba some time back).  Further, taking a public stand on a matter
%   does not mean that e-mail is solicited (sending e-mail is actually
%   an invasion of one's privacy, in my opinion).  
%
%   - Maruti   bmaruti@wpi.wpi.edu

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