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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: News and Motss
Message-ID: <15148@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 21:30:57 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.15148
Posted: Wed Mar 11 21:30:57 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 02:13:30 EST
References: <1237@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1130@uwmacc.UUCP> <291@unisoft.UUCP> <2438@mtgzy.UUCP> <294@unisoft.UUCP> <298@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
Lines: 40
Keywords: apology

In article <298@unisoft.UUCP> wendyt@unisoft.UUCP (Wendy Thrash) writes:
>In article <294@unisoft.UUCP> wendyt@unisoft.UUCP (Wendy Thrash) writes:
><that Andy B. "apparently" used to have copies of all news postings mailed
>to him at lll-lcc>
>
>Alas, what is "apparent" is not always true.  Although Andy may have suggested
>this to Carl, I have been informed that he DID NOT do it at lll-lcc.  My
>sincere apologies to Andy.

If I were Andy, I would respond that apologies are unneeded. In case
you've forgotten, news postings are intended to be publically
available and read by anyone. If, for example, you want to stay in the
closet, posting to net.motss is not the way to do this. Having local
articles mailed to the news administrator poses no moral problems to
me. 

Reading someone else's e-mail is somewhat rude but within the rights
of the owner of the system the mail is on. 

I (we) do not have local postings sent to anyone, nor do we as a
matter of course read e-mail.  If a bad address causes a letter to be
bounced to me as postmaster, I'll read what fits on a screen or as
much as needed to handle it. But let's not confuse my current
behavior, which I maintain out of politeness, with what I (the owners
of this system) have the right to do, which is anything we please. And
if you don't like it, find another relay. 

Consider this posting to be in the nature of the little metal plaques
you find imbedded in the sidewalks outside some skyscrapers: "Right to
pass by permission of owner and revocable at any time."

E-mail is not private and all the screaming in the world won't make it
so. 

-- 
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