Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:44:52 04/04/03
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On April 04, 2003 at 17:51:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 04, 2003 at 16:58:31, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On April 04, 2003 at 13:36:23, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>> >>>Correct. Also, I did not reproduce the emails in whole, instead I quoted from >>>them. I had some interest in preserving the author's copyright. If hairs are >>>split, it may be found that I was a little loose with this, but on the other >>>hand, the email to me also contained copyrighted material (the "art"). >>> >> >>You are crazy if you are going to be defensive about this. I don't know where >>the posters of this newsgroup got the queer notion that publishing an email or >>letter you received is not legal, or a breach of copyright. It's not. A letter >>you received is your property to do whatever you want with it. >> >>If we are going to get legal, then you should have answered the first email you >>received "Please don't send me any more such emails". The legal term for further >>emails would then be harassment. If you seriously don't want to receive such >>messages you can get a restraining order, though I believe you'll need to get it >>in Austria. >> >>Amir > >Amir let's be a bit objective here. He did ship content back at which Chrilly >could conclude if he was just IQ=100 that Bruce didn't appreciate what he got. > >Further Chrilly got back some furious reaction from me asking him why he was in >favour of the Saddam regime. > >Chrilly didn't deny this question. So using your own logics as above here, that >would legally mean that Chrilly is supporting the Saddam regime. > >Do you agree or disagree now? > >Vincent My reaction was "why did you send this to me?" He responded and I did not reply. I know that others responsed much more vigorously. Obviously, since one of the people who got it was Bob. But even so, it seems very clear that the intent was to cause a reaction. I mean, if I throw a rock through your window, you shouldn't have to say anything to let me know that you won't appreciate it if I throw another one. The intent of this whole thing was to provoke a discussion of the war. I don't see that it has much of anything to do with the war. It's interesting that the CSS thread about this, the first responses are about the war. "Bruce gets rude email, is pissed off." "Well, what do you expect, the war is illegal." I don't give a shit if the war is illegal, with regard to this incident. This kind of thing crosses every line, as far as I'm concerned. The Germans can't understand this because they have a different cultural deal. Bizarre response as far as I'm concerned. And you know, it's not just, hey, here's shit in your email, pphhhbt. It's that there isn't even any effort to talk to me. It was like, you are an American, therefore you are stupid and understand nothing, despite the fact that I barely know you and probably know nothing about what you think about this, here is a piece of shit, bon appetite. I bet that as far as the sender knew, I opposed the war. I barely even know this person and he does this. Cripes. bruce
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