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Private communications are private. The rule at FR clearly says that, logic clearly says that and I think ethics clearly says that also. If one wants to disclose something from a private communication one should ask the person for permission to do so first.

I have to agree with gore3000 on this: I think freepmail should be considered private. The only situation where I'd be comfortable with posting someone's freepmail in the open is if the Moderators were being called in on them or something.

I vote that nobody does this again.

I agree that it shouldn't be the norm, for reasons I discuss in 2362. Generally, you consider private correspondence as confidential.

But it's really up to you, the recipient. Getting a freepmail is or should be the same as getting a letter. In my experience mail contents are frequently disclosed publicly. Business correspondence, "Dear John" letters tacked to bulletin boards for peer-group comments, whatever. No one should assume a right to abuse, taunt, threaten, etc. behind a shield of "privacy."

OK you guys, I can agree with this in principle, but when it is something that effects ALL of us, I expect such a thing to be announced.

I felt that I needed to spread that freepmail to certain posters, and Vade felt that it was important enough to be shared with everyone. I agree with his assessment, because THAT Freepmail HAD to be discussed in the open.

It was an announcement of intent and a done deal to decieve, and therefore effected EVERYONE on the agreement thread.

I feel that most Freepmail is for my eyes and for my eyes only, and I keep that in mind, UNTIL something like this comes along to disrupt that thinking. I used my discretion, and I feel that that should be the rule.

A Freepmail is considered private, unless the recipient feels that it is important enough to be shared.

I trust the discretion of the recipient of the freepmail to do with that freepmail that which he feels is most appropriate to the situation.

If it is important enough that recipient feels that it needs to be shared, the recipient can do it one of 2 ways, privately, send it to those he feels have a need to see it, and if he feels it is important enough to share with everyone, he should do so in a public thread.

When a sender sends me an E-mail, that E-mail becomes MINE, to do with as I feel is necassary. I will never discuss an e-mail with anyone else, unless, as this one was, something that SHOULD HAVE been shared to all particapants, so that everyone would understand exactly what happened and why.

Again, at the discretion of the recipient, the Freepmail is theirs to do with as they see fit, once it hits their mailbox.

I vote that nobody does this again.

I have to respectively disagree. I think that private information should remain private, and private jokes between friends should remain private, but private insults and taunts are fair game in my book.

No one should feel protected by privacy if they email the equivalent of a rasberry.

Same goes for any communication with another. A profession of love is private, a gross insult is not.