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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: Posting of e-mail by the mail recipient
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Date: 20 Aug 89 20:35:48 GMT
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In article <1989Aug20.191224.10946@agate.berkeley.edu> 
tse@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Tse) writes:

> What is net.policy on the posting of e-mail (without the permission
> of the sender of mail)?  
>
> Please realize that I am not interested in the legal answer.  Rather, 
> I'd like to discover what netiquette says about the question.

Very simple.  Don't do it without permission of the sender.  If you do
it you will most likely get flamed, and no one will defend you.

Almost everyone seems to agree that posting mail without permission is
wrong -- one of the few things netters do agree about.