Jim Balter wrote:
>>rawcswi at my-deja.com wrote:
>> > However, you can hardly expect both to be rude to someone in a
> > private communication and to have them show you the courtesy of
> > protecting the privacy of your communication.
>> Yes, I most certainly can expect that, from people with any regard
> for the rule against making private communications public.
> Of course some morally corrupt persons find all sorts of
> justifications for their corruption, such as "oh, that rule doesn't
> apply if the person was rude".
> <J Q B>
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There's no such "rule". It originated in a file written in ten minutes
by a sysadmin of the old DarpaNet to request that people stop flaming
each other. It's merely a recommendation, not a rule of any kind. No
ISP's defend it and they will tell you there is no such obligation.
Mail sent by USPS to a person becomes their property in its entirety,
though not their copyright. The sender owns the copyrights, but the
reciepient owns the right to distribute the information given him
any way he wishes.
-Steve
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