Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.women,net.nlang.india Subject: Re: BLATANT DISRESPECT Message-ID: <2567@randvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 14:12:37 EDT Article-I.D.: randvax.2567 Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:12:37 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:20:10 EDT References: <1801@ut-ngp.UUCP> <661@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <907@sdcsla.UUCP> Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall) Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 14 Keywords: copyright, mail Xref: watmath net.women:6100 net.nlang.india:471 Summary: Who owns a sent letter? I believe that at least in terms of copyright, it is the *sender* of a letter who is deemed to own it. Although this is not a matter of copyright, I suspect that the same criteria apply. However, at least one of the letters posted contained permission to post it to the net, which certainly excused the person who posted it in that case. Otherwise, posting private correspondence would seem to be a breach of privacy, in a moral if not in a legal sense. Someone who does it deserves whatever flames they get. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall