Whineland

[Henry Musikar]

John, your "cops to bust into your house" analogy doesn't fit the 
net. The net is usually considered to be public discourse. This isn't 
the same as the bosses reading my email.

I'd be particularly interested in hearing from the list's journalists 
on the subjects: privacy, permission, attribution, libel, etc.

On 23 Apr 97 at 16:15,  <MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Henry, I respectfully disagree w/ your reasoning. It's as though
> you'd argued that it's ok for the cops to bust into your house as
> long as you aren't hiding any contraband or fugitives.  The whole
> issue IMO is precisely those *mixed* feelings you seem not too
> perplexed about. Beyond that--oh my fellow listers, I have been the
> mutest of all on this because anything I say gets me in more
> trouble.  I am curious to see Dale, following Jules, argue that on
> the one hand our posts aren't very important to the book's artistic
> accomplishment, but on the other hand, they're important enough not
> to even consider the requests of those who ask not to be included in
> the enterprise.
> 
> john (extensively quoted, as you'd guessed) m
> ****************************
> Henry M. writes:
> >
> >Heat shields deployed:
> >
> >I don't see Lineland as that big a threat to any of us. I have mixed 
> >feelings/opinions about the net and copyright law/morals. On the 
> >other hand, how many of us have sent anything to list that was so 
> >valuable or shameful that it would make much of a difference if a few 
> >more people read it when/if Julie's book is published?
> 
> 

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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