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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Posting Correspondence
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Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 14:03:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  2 14:03:02 1985
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Summary: Adrian on Maroney - remember the Maroney case?

tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:

> Ordinarily, posting private correspondence is strictly verboten, unless the
> person who sent the message consents.  There are exceptions to any taboo,
> though.  If someone has been using the privacy of the correspondence as a
> tool to harass or conspire against another person, ...
> Such cases are extremely unusual, this being a largely civilized world.

franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian) replies in this vein:

> Thank you, Big Brother.  ...Private mail should be PRIVATE.  ...
> ...  WHO are YOU to make such a decision? ... I hope Mr. Maroney
> rethinks his Gestapo/Stalinist tactics, before he happens upon a root
> password for his system.

Well, Frank, Tim may be too modest to mention it, but as those of us who
were on the net last summer know, he appears to have been a *victim* of
"Stalinist tactics" in the past.  He posted a series of long articles of
correspondence between himself and various people at UNC, where he then was,
and they made a prima facie case to the effect that some UNC faculty members
conspired to censor him off the net; he says it is because of his religious
views.  (I don't state things any more positively than that because UNC
chose never to reply, and the correspondence might have been
misconstrued or even forged.  However, I'm inclined to believe Tim.)

He said, as I recall, that he felt justified in posting the email because
he got it all from generally-readable files and because of the importance
of the case ... and I'm inclined to agree with that too.  Your turn, I
think, Tim.

Mark Brader