Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 04:10:12 04/12/00
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On April 11, 2000 at 23:05:59, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On April 11, 2000 at 22:09:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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? > >I agree with most of what Dr. Hyatt is saying. You just don't publish private >e-mails, no matter who you believe sent it. I percieved it as being just that, >which is why it should have been removed automatically. There is no shame in >being wrong. I would advise the moderator(s) to acknowledge the mistake and move >on. > >Best wishes... good point... Mogens... when you are young it is sometimes hard to admit a mistake... when ya get a little older, it's not really a_big_deal any-more... :) pilgrimdan >Mogens
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