On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 19:24 -0600, Eric Westhagen wrote: > Look:---------All I pointed to was that a "solidarity walk" for the > Capitol demonstrators against the Governor is not a bicycle topic for > this listserv. Then three contributers change the topic?-----------Is > a political solidarity walk for Capitol demonstrator > support------appropriate?----or not?--------ew [snip] > Larry D. Nelson wrote: > > Eric, my first thought is, “don’t go there”. But, as long as Jeff > > Schimpff, WDNR has opened the door, why not ask him when WDNR will [snip]
If we really want to talk about what is or isn't appropriate, never mind whether the original post was or was not sufficiently bicycle-related or of sufficient general interest to list members to merit inclusion on the list. That's almost always going to be a grey area. Let's look instead at ethical conduct. It's possible that I might have missed something, that perhaps my email provider has not yet received some messages and maybe a couple other messages will eventually be received out of chronological sequence, but I do not see any messages to the list on this thread from either Jeff Schimpff or Larry Nelson. Did anyone see original replies to this bikies thread from those two people? Yet, somehow, text of messages attributed to those two people appears quoted in two of Eric W's posts to bikies. One of the fundamental principles of email etiquette is that private messages between/among two or more members of a list should remain private between/among the specific participants, and not be reposted publicly to the entire list without permission of the parties involved. If Jeff and Larry replied privately to Eric and did not include the bikies list as a recipient in their replies, then Eric was not entitled to repost publicly the private replies without their permission. To Eric or anyone else, if you receive an off-list reply to something you posted to the list, keep your subsequent exchanges off-list as well. You don't have the right to tack on bikies as an additional recipient of your reply to a private exchange if the other party has not explicitly consented. For one reason or another, each of them chose not to post their replies publicly, perhaps simply not to clutter the list, perhaps for other reasons. Please respect their choices. That's all I care to say on the matter. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
