Text 46793, 41 rader
Skriven 2007-01-06 11:48:44 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
  Kommentar till text 46767 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
Ärende: America
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Hello Björn.

06 Jan 07 08:11, you wrote to me:


 RC>>>> As long as your name appears in the to/from fields, the message
 RC>>>> belongs to you and you can do with it as you please.

 BF>>> You seems to be the only one with that wierd opinion.

 JS>>      A rather common opinion actually.  If I send you a letter or
 JS>> in this case a netmail. I have the option of also sending it to
 JS>> others or making it available to others in other forums. When you
 JS>> receive that message you have the option of doing the same thing
 JS>> if you so choose. That message upon reception is yours to do with
 JS>> as you see fit. There are a number of reasons why people wouldn't
 JS>> normally do this though. Privacy may be desired and to a certain
 JS>> degree achieved with netmail. But privacy should not be a
 JS>> expectation in the use of netmail.

 BF> OK. Then we keep it here in the open echo. No use for netmail any
 BF> more.

 BF>>> Don't think that anyone will ever send you a netmail after this.

 JS>>      That is of course their choice.

 BF> OK. Next time someone send me a netmail I will move it here for
 BF> everyone else to see.

    While you would have the legal right to do so. You would probably end
up with noone willing to send you any more netmails. Something that you may
have the right to do is always right to actually do.

 BF> ---
 BF>  * Origin: . (2:203/614.61)

Jeff

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