At 3:06 PM -0400 6/7/2000, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>Dumb question time: I was e-chatting with a colleague and I mentioned
>that IMO it was impolite and improper to forward a person's postings
>in one forum to another forum without their knowledge and consent.
>He argued back, in essence, that "public is public", and it wasn't
>like he had divulged private correspondence or anything, and I should
>just chill out...
I think, basically, that I agree with the "chill" aspect. When I do
this, I try to make sure I don't mess with the context. Attribution
depends on the situation, but if it's the person's piece, I carry
forward the attribution. if it's more "straight news", I don't.
but if someone posts something to one of my hockey lists that's
relevant to another list, I sure don't see the problem in forwarding
it. Now, if I took something posted to the Dallas Stars list and
forwarded it to the New Jersey Devil's list with a "look what this
idiot said about us, let's get him", it'd be different...
I think it fits okay under fair use. I mean, in reality, most lists
have archives today, and nobody would think twice about pointing
with a URL to the same message in an archive, right? so we're simply
cutting a level of indirection out of the loop.
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