On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, WickedFrau wrote: > Gosh, I do this on a regular basis if I have permission of the person > who wrote the note...maybe I am missing the point; who is supposed to > be the offended person? The recipients or the person who wrote the > original note?
I wouldn't think there would be any issue if you get an OK from the original poster first, as you say. We don't know if that was the case here, however, because the person who did the forwarding didn't indicate whether it was done with permission. Occasionally people have forwarded my posts, without my permission, to other lists. I know they mean well, but I don't appreciate it. If someone asks for permission, I often give it, but there are sometimes reasons I don't want to be a presence on certain lists, or don't want certain queries/comments of mine bandied about among other net-populations. (It's very embarrassing, for instance, when I'm asking about a point raised in an article I'm editing, and the post is forwarded to a list where the author of the article is active, and certainly must wonder why I'm asking. It was worse when I posted a limited discount offer to a single list and found it had been forwarded by an overzealous bargain-hunter to many others.) Other times I hope for forwardings -- say, of book announcements or calls for papers -- and I try to put "Feel free to forward" on the top of the posts I want to be spread around, so that other people reading them will know I approved. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
