Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/04
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Not wanting to keep what is a really non-Leica thread going...
Martin, you are absolutely correct when you describe publically posting
private Emails as "Mummy! Mummy! So and so took my spade!" behavior which
says as much about the poster as the postee - and I say this having myself
once engaged in just such behavior :-) - however...
Before putting on a smiley face to those on a public list while visciously
trashing someone "off-list," one would do well to remember the oft profered
excellent advice...
..."Don't ever put anything in writing you wouldn't want to see reprinted on
the front page of the New York Times."
:-)
B. D.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Martin
> Howard
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 11:54 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] OT: Good behaviour
>
>
>
> There has recently been a discussion on this list about the
> use of public
> versus private email. One view put forth was that this list
> is a public
> forum and that it is irrelevant if someone wishes to take the
> discussion
> into private email, thus making all private email freely
> distributable by
> the second party to the list.
>
> Anyone should recognize that this is absolute nonsense. It
> is NEVER the
> prerogative of the recipient of email to redistribute this to a public
> forum, just as it is not the prerogative of the recipient of
> a private
> letter to pin it up on a public bulletin board without the
> prior consent
> of the sending party.
>
> If there is ANY doubt about this, consider the situations in
> which this
> happens. Typically, the recipient of private email will feel that the
> person sending it has written something inflamatory, and they
> wish to show
> to the rest of the world what an asshole (in their opinion)
> the sender is.
> So, the email, or portions of it, get publically posted.
>
> This kind of behaviour is not only childish ("Mummy, mummy,
> so-and-so just
> took my spade!") it is a violation of the most basic manners
> in written
> conversation. If private email upsets you, ignore it.
>
> By redistributing private email so show how terrible someone conducted
> themselves actually only does more damage to your own public
> image than
> that of the author of the private email.
>
> To ensure that your email is identified as private, mark it
> as such (I use
> "[private]" in the subject heading when writing to people who I also
> correspond with through emailing lists). If you wish to
> redistribute all or
> parts of a private message, seek consent before doing so.
>
> M.
>
> --
> Martin Howard |
> Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | What boots up must come down.
> email: howard.390@osu.edu |
> www: http://mvhoward.i.am/
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