From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 18:03:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7850416A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F88C43D3F for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:03:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@seopa.com) Received: from seopa1 ([80.6.76.172]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20040206020242.YPRV9412.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@seopa1>; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:02:42 +0000 Message-ID: <02fe01c3ec55$5a37d690$0200a8c0@seopa1> From: "Greg Wilson" To: "Peter Risdon" References: <027d01c3ec1c$07246150$0200a8c0@seopa1> <4022A864.3010106@circlesquared.com> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:03:02 -0000 Organization: Seopa Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advertising? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Greg Wilson List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:03:09 -0000 I thank you for your display of considerable arrogance and unwillingness to cooperte on a socdial or business level. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Risdon" To: "Greg Wilson" Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: Re: Advertising? > Greg Wilson wrote: > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/001602.html > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/001781.html > > > >Hi > > > >I reference these two documents, where you have publish my private correspondance. > > > This was obviously inadvertent, but as has been pointed out you mailed a > mailing list, not an individual, and so your correspondence has never > been private. We all read it as soon as you sent it out. > > The fact that this is a mailing list is made very clear on the FreeBSD > website. > > All mails sent to this list are archived (and mirrored around the world) > automatically, and this is a necessary and important part of the way > these lists function. It means an archive (which is searchable) builds > up as a point of reference, so people who are dealing with problems and > issues can refer to it. Also, there's some chance that questions won't > be asked over and over again. Again, this is made clear on the FreeBSD > website. Indeed, you can search the archives right there. > > From time to time people do send inappropriate messages to the list. > Frankly, most subscribers would prefer it if they didn't. Your mail was > in this category. Inappropriate mails waste people's time. You are, in > effect, asking someone to waste more time. > > > I am writing to ask you to remove these documents which were published with out my consent. > > > > > IANAL, but I'd have thought that the act of sending a mail to a public, > open, archived forum constitutes consent to the contents of that mail > being displayed in a public, open, archived forum. > > >Please tell me when they are removed, > > > > > The horse left the stable when you first posted the mails. I can't see > that any harm has been done. But if it has, it happened when you sent > the mails. Perhaps you could consider this to have been a learning > experience? > > PWR. > >