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Joe Parsons wrote in message . ..
On 21 Oct 2003 10:25:41 -0700, (Curtis CCR) wrote:

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.

I probably would have been well advised to mention that one should send emails
with the expectation that they *could* be posted--and, before entering into some
sort of covenant with the correspondent, to avoid saying anything in email that
might be embarrassing if made public.

As adamant as I personally am about keeping private email private, I would not
hesitate to post anything abusive that was sent to me by email.

That is generally the way I look at it. Though there have been many
times when I have seen people flamed mercilessly for doing just that.