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How do I get out of this new group? -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Callen [SMTP:jcallen at torrent.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 1997 9:24 AM To: discuss at tarnhelm.blu.org Subject: Anonymous postings [I'm reluctant to step into this issue because it's unrelated to Linux, and because it has a low flash point, with an accompanying high risk of flamage. If the anonymous poster wishes to continue the discussion privately, I promise to keep his/her identity confidential. In any case, I intend for this to be my *only* posting on this topic. -- Jerry Callen (not Jerry Feldman)] Anonymous writes: each mailing list is different, some small & private groups of friends, some like David Farber's "Interesting-People" where people agree not to retransmit the copyrighted articles, some large traffic mailing-lists where sharing articles is verboten It doesn't matter if the mailing list is small, private, cozy, or downright chummy. Redistribution of copyrighted material without permission is illegal. i am a human being who respects individual mailing-list community policies and respond if asked politely. I don't doubt that at all. However, anonymous remailers make it impossible to do the *most* polite thing, which is to send private email, rather than forcing the entire mailing list to bevome involved. Under the circumstances, I felt that Jerry Feldman's reaction was very reasonable. He *did* mention that the article was interesting... -- Jerry Callen jcallen at world.std.com "The best lack conviction, given some time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy." -- Joni Mitchell (borrowing from W.B. Yeats) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3966 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/19970227/f34dc381/attachment.bin>
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