Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:09:06 04/11/00
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On April 11, 2000 at 17:45:59, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >I think we've said what we're going to say about the judgment issue. I think I'm >right, you think you're right. Fine. It was the moderators' call to make, maybe >we made the wrong one, oh well. > >What you still haven't answered to my satisfaction is this: if the situation was >so clear to you, why didn't you say anything? > >I was trying to determine RR's identity for probably 24 hours. You're saying >that his identity (i.e., not Ossi) was clear to you immediately. So what were >you doing the whole time? Were you thinking something like, "I know who RR >really is, and the moderators don't, and they're making a big mistake, ha ha!" >In other words, do you really like having big arguments with me more than you >like to help your fellow man? Consider that a rhetorical question if you want. > >-Tom It is easy to answer: (a) I was a moderator for an extended period of time. It was time-consuming to handle the complaints; (b) I handle about 100 emails per day now, that takes a lot of time; (c) by the time _I_ read the post, you had already read it and responded to it. I assumed a little bit of knowledge about email privacy on your part and didn't give it much more thought. I haven't _ever_ (to my best recollection) asked a moderator to remove _any_ posting here. They were elected and I choose to let them exercise their authority as they see fit. Someone complained about the email posting. I responded "a moderator was asleep at the switch". End of story for me. If you had said I was asleep at the switch when I read the question about parallel search as a question about parallel algorithms in general, you would have been right. Just as I was right in this case... There is _no_ case where email is allowable, _except_ when the author gives direct permission or posts it himself. I disagree with Bertil in that email from a company is just as subject to international copyright laws as is an email from an individual, _if_ the email was not directed to some public facility like mail-to-news or some such thing. It was obvious it was directed toward the SSDF and not to the general public. Publishing it here violated copyright law, common courtesy, and usenet nettiquette. Any one of those should be enough to get it kicked out summarily... Perhaps you have learned that posting private email is a no-no. Perhaps you haven't. In any case, it is still wrong to do, and wrong to allow it to stand in a public location without permission of the author. As I would assume that had he wanted it here, he would have posted it here himself. And since he didn't, he didn't want it public. How complicated can that be?
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