Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:archiving or not.
From: Leica Man <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:36:14 -0500

I guess I will have to stop using my real name, and get an anonymous
hotmail email account.

Mr X.

At 10:13 PM 23-11-98 EST, you wrote:
>You guys debating this "archiving of my comments" issue really crack me up.
>
>Funny thing is, in my work we run into people who have a similar problem.
I am
>a newspaper reporter and work in a room full of newspaper reporters. Our
>computers, like most, are networked, allowing us to use e-mail to talk to
each
>other, with the little messages appearing right there on the screen in front
>of us.
>
>You guessed it -- people get FURIOUS when someone reads their messages,
either
>accidntally or not so accidentally. My response is, if you don't want it
read,
>don't send it. What you're doing, I tell them, is putting your alleged secret
>message ON A TV SCREEN IN A ROOM FULL OF PAID SNOOPS!
>
>Same thing here: anyone putting a message on any internet board/ site/
>web/area/chat/whatever is publishing it to the entire world. Trying to  claim
>ownership or control of it is not only futile, but fails to recognize that
the
>true blame for your loss of control lies with yourself, no one else.
>
>You don't want it splattered all over the world, don't broadcast it on the
>internet, the most uncontrolled, anarchic creation in the world at the
moment.
>I haven't heard any court decisions yet, but I suspect trying to claim
>ownership of something you put on the LUG or anywhere else would get you
>laughed out of court.
>
>charlie trentelman
>ogden, Utah
>
>