Re: LAW: Privacy in Electronic Recordkeeping

From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 17:43:26 MST


Don't communicate with anyone...

Put a little permissions thingie at the bottom of your emails...

Put a big message up top: DON'T SEND ME ANY EMAIL UNLESS YOU WANT THE
WHOLE WIDE WORLD TO SEE IT.

Basically, you're going to drastically reduce the number of people
who communicate with you--or at least the number who truly speak
their minds. You're going to get self-edited communications, at best.
Bad idea.

Why not just ask, for each thing you wish to pass along: Do you mind
if I pass this [paste snippet here] along to [whomever] with/without
your name attached?

jm

On 21 Jan 2001, at 15:25, Ken Meyering wrote:

> How can I make it so nobody communicates with me without agreeing in advance
> that I can share that communication in its entirety with my community of
> peers.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <T0Morrow@aol.com>
> To: <extropians@extropy.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: LAW: Privacy in Electronic Recordkeeping
>
>
> > To make available to the public the entirety of someone's private
> > correspondence to
> > you would almost certainly violate their copyrights (absent their having
> > consented
> > to such reproduction and distribution of their works) and might violate
> their
> > privacy
> > rights (if they wrote to you in the context of a confidential
> relationship).
> >
> > In a message dated 1/20/01 10:33:40 PM, kenmeyering@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > . . .
> > >I'm interested in digitizing all of written correspondence I receive, and
> > >placing those files on my home computer (which is internet connected and
> > >accessible with password).
> > >
> > >When someone sends me a letter and I digitize it and put it on my
> computer,
> > >is this legal (by current law)?
> >
> > T.0. Morrow
> > http://members.aol.com/t0morrow/T0Mpage.html
>

John Marlow



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