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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
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:12:37 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:20:10 EDT
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Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
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Keywords: copyright, mail
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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
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