Joe Parsons wrote in message . ..

Long-established Usenet convention agrees that e-mail is NOT to be posted
publicly without the express knowledge and consent of the original author.

A convention that I don't subscribe to. While I don't make a practice
of posting e-mails, anybody sending e-mail to the "public" e-mail
address I use here has no reasonable expectation that it will remain
private unless agreed to in advance.