It wasn’t public, eh?
How do we know about it?
Wipe the stars from your eyes and stop being so naive. If the public knows about it, it’s public.
Private emails are intended for private audiences. Or are we going to be seeing you do the neat trick of publishing some freepmails and yet still retain your posting privileges? No, you won’t do that trick because you’re reasoning is flawed, as usual.
Let the readers decide for themselves.