Re: UKNM: RE: privacy of lists

[Phil Gyford]

At 16:35 21/09/98 +0100, you wrote:


>I did not file that thread, but as I see it this forum is almost public

>domain - although it is bad behaviour and impolite to take peoples postings

>outside the list and display them elsewhere without asking.

>

>I saw a post of mine to this list in a magazine not too long ago - not

>really on without asking.

>

>I am prepared to be shouted down on this however as I am picking up a fag

>end without reading the earlier posts. I would have thought that if you want

>something to be secret, don't send it over email as it is insecure anyway.


There's a difference between private and secret, and email being insecure

seems an irrelevant point. I'd regard the list as reasonably private, and I

wouldn't expect to read anything posted here printed in a mag without it

being approved by the originator like you have done.


Matthew's reaction may have been justified if the comments were made in a

truly public place (eg a magazine) but in a mailing list such as this it's

a huge overreaction that only makes himself look stupid.


My 2c.



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