I'm not trying to start an argument here and this is the last I'll say, but
your understanding of your rights as regards your emails is not correct,
and I think it's very important to be clear on this. It's not about what
is nice or fair or polite. It's about what is. If you send me an email,
control of that email leaves your hands and falls into mine. If I ask your
permission to repost it, that's me going the extra mile to be nice, but the
email is now mine and I don't need your permission for anything. It's not
bad or even discurtious to forward an email without permission. The system
gives you credit for the work as long as I leave the content unmodified.
This is both the strength and the weekness of internet communication. If
you have something to sell or a service to provide or something to say
that's particularly special, I can forward it to all my friends who pass it
on to their friends and it propogates. If I want to screw you and I am
middlingly clever, I can add or remove content completely altering what you
said. Unless my alteration causes you substancial fisical, social, or
economic harm, there is not a thing you can do about it. Neither is there
anything I can do about it if some one down the line alters it. I could
put my name on your work. It's not copy writed. I could publish your
profound thought on my blog as my own, leaving a perminant record of that
material as belonging to me, and then the material could be considered
copyrighted and my property.
You could post sensitive information to an email list where people talk
about mental illness, child wellfare, intimacy issues or any sensitive
topic. I could take that information and give it to local authorities,
your family if I know who they are, or any one I think might be in a
position to use it. Your sensitive information litterally becomes my
information in this medium.
This is why it's so important to be clear and why I'm taking so much time
to explain it. If you create something that you do not want in the public
domain, never ever post it via email because control of the content
transfers to the recipient.
Best,
Erik
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On April 21, 2017 8:33:17 AM alia robinson <ali...@gmail.com> wrote:
that is not true at all. if I am on a list sharing my thoughts it is my
propperty. my writing. no one has the right to forward that. in your view
someone could write something on a list. I could snag it and rpost it and
say it’s mine, since in your words it becomes “my propperty’ that is
frankly ridiculous!
On Apr 21, 2017, at 8:14 AM, Erik Burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote:
Once you send a message, it becomes the public domain and the property of
the person who received it.
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