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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Wimpy Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Netiquette
Message-ID: <14979@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 00:55:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.14979
Posted: Thu Jul 24 00:55:03 1986
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Reply-To: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Wimpy Math Grad Student)
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Keywords: mail e-mail copyright
Summary: jerks & e-mail

In article <2895@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:
>This was originally going to be a reply, but I felt it had some mild
>entertainment value, so here it is for public consumption and condemnation.

>FLAME ON!!!

Gag.  What an arrogant jerk.  This guy writes as if he wrote the program
or something.

>Indeed, there have been times when people have become upset because their
>private reply to an article was later posted to the world without permission.
>The de facto assumption of the net is that e-mail is kept private unless
>some mention was made, either in the original article, or the reply, about
>summarizing to the net.

What is the legal status of e-mail?  Since, as has been mentioned recently
in this newsgroup, the copyright of mail is with the originator, and posting
of copyrighted material is forbidden, perhaps the same could be said for the
unpermitted posting of received e-mail.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Wimpy Grad Student/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720