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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Internationalist posturings.
Message-ID: <1988Nov27.003012.28598@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1969@garth.UUCP> <7921@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 88 00:30:12 GMT

In article <7921@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>... It is considered *extremely* impolite to take private
>netmail messages from other users and repost them publicly in news
>articles, without first obtaining the authors' permission.

It is also a violation of copyright.  When somebody mails you a letter
(the law was written with physical letters in mind, but almost certainly
would be held to apply to electronic ones too), you own the copy that you
receive, but the *author* owns the copyright unless he specifically
renounces it or otherwise indicates that the letter is "for publication"
(e.g. by sending it to a "letters to the editor" address).  You can be
sued for publishing a private letter without the author's permission.
-- 
Sendmail is a bug,             |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
not a feature.                 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu