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Subject:Re: Re[2]: How one fellow sees us From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 11 Oct 1994 01:36:34 -0600
I certainly agree that permission should be asked to post to another list,
although it is entirely possible that a person might lose track of which
list the message originally came from. As for being rude to include the
whole message in a response, some of us either leave out the whole
conversation, or must include it because of the limitations of our e-mail
software. I write from a variety of systems. Some allow me to scroll
down and be selective. Others do not. I hope that I will not be regarded
as rude because of the limitations of the system I use.
Karen Kay wrote:>
> 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.
> Karen
> karenk -at- netcom -dot- com
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