Danny Thank you for the advice which is very helpful However I think we have rather lost the plot here. Originally one person sent an simple message to the list drawing attention to some work he had posted on line which other people have said in the past they found useful. Someone else on the list sent him an unsolicited message privately commenting on his work in an rather offensive manner. Not surprisingly the recipient was very upset and raised the matter briefly on the list. All that I tried to say initially was that I don't think that we should take advantage of the fact that we can contact people off the list to send other members messages which may upset them. There seemed to me to be no justification in this instance to do so.... Maybe we can let the matter rest now. Monica
----Original Message---- From: [email protected] Date: 11/08/2016 9:57 To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> Subj: Re: [LUTE] Re: Privacy Monica, I'm mostly a "lurker" on the lute list, but would like to point out one thing, because it might help you avoid an awkward situation one day: If I send someone a private email, then the contents of my email are protected under copyright (prior to 1989 US copyright law required a notice to be included, but that's not the case now). Therefore their rights to copy my private email to a 3rd party, let alone the public domain, are extremely limited. That's the case for not just any pictures/art/music/audio etc that I send, but the actual words too. So in the case of this email, you would have the right to write to the list and say "Danny wrote to me and told me X", but you wouldn't actually have the right to include my email verbatim - unless I gave you explicit permission (which I do, but I suggest that the list is tired of the subject now!). All the best - Danny On 11 August 2016 at 09:42, [email protected] <[email protected]. uk> wrote: > Well - I don't agree and I reserve the right to ignore messages sent to > me off list or to reply to them on the list if I am so minded. > Monica > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- http://www.rowlhouse.co.uk/main.html
