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From: jlc@wucfua.wustl.edu (Roving UIUC CS Grad Student)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.misc,rec.humor.d,news.misc,misc.misc,soc.culture.misc,soc.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with
Message-ID: <379@wucfua.wustl.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 88 00:30:15 GMT
References: <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <1548@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: jlc@wucfua.UUCP (Roving UIUC CS Grad Student)
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In article <1548@buengc.BU.EDU> art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson) writes:
>In article <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> davidm@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Makowsky) writes:
>>
>>	I am posting two pieces of email received by Nancy Gould.
>>I am doing this on my own, and without her permission (Nancy has
>>already made it public on the net that she received such email).
>>	Since I believe in the privacy rights of those who send
>>email, no matter how disgusting it is, I have deleted any reference
>>to user id's, or the senders' names.  [...]
>
>It's truly unfortunate that you chose to delete the names of the senders
>of this disgusting and cowardly trash.  They deserve to be publicly
>exposed.  I don't see how their privacy rights in any way should be
>invoked to protect them from the scorn they so richly deserve.

I'm not really sure that this would be legal, especially in this case (when
the mail is being revealed by a third party). There are federal laws to
protect privacy of e-mail. I suspect that revealing the names would be
legal if Nancy Gould did it, but not from a third-party.

Any legal experts out there know to what extent e-mail (which is treated,
I believe, as unpublished) is protected? It would really be tragic if the
persons who sent this offensive trash were entitled to damages from those
it was sent to if their names were released...

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