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From: bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass)
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Subject: Re: Posting Correspondence
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 22:14:31 EST
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To post an alternate view -- there is nothing any more "private" about
email correspondence than a direct posting. If you say something in a
"private" email message that you wouldn't say in a group of 100 strangers
you are crazy or don't realy believe what you say. It should be assumed
that the receiver has the RIGHT to summarize EMAIL replies to the net on
any topic.

So - from my view point - if your uncomfortable with someone else hearing
any trash you put in some EMAIL message -- don't write it in the first place.
If you do feel strongly enough to write something -- then you had better
be PROUD of it if ends up public.

This should be common sense, but too many people use EMAIL as a shield in
dealing with people. Many reponses I've seen would have never been given
verbally (either over the phone or face to face) by a rational person.

BTW: some sites have (atleast in the past) used a "spy mode" in forwarding
mail -- as I remember their was some todo about rand doing this 6 years
or so ago because of internal security requirments. also some mail
tends to endup in a dead-letter action file on some sites for human
handling.
-- 
John Bass
DMS Design (System Performance and Arch Consultants)
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