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Subject:Re: Re[2]: How one fellow sees us From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Oct 1994 00:08:12 -0700
Richard Mateosian said:
> >I would caution against the reposting of someone's
> >message without their prior permission.
> I find this a little strange, given that a large percentage of the messages
> on this and most other lists contain, in toto, the message they are
> responding to. Exactly what consequences should I be cautious of? ...RM
A lot of people consider reposting a message to another list without
the author's permission a rude thing to do. I certainly would not be
at all happy if someone reposted something I wrote here to another
list without asking me for permission to do so. (Or if someone used
something I wrote in an article without my permission--we've already
been around once about *that* topic.)
Also, it could be construed as a violation of copyright.
I'm not at all sure about quoting the entire message in a response. On
the other hand, if that's part of an ongoing conversation, I suppose
it could be construed as fair use. This strikes me as very different
in intent (though also poor manners, of course) because it's in the
same forum.
