I reach for my gun

[Henry Musikar]

On 26 Jul 97 at 13:22, Vaska <vaska at geocities.com> wrote:
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> you know.  He writes me a note; I respond; in his second private
> message he talks of his *right* to a public response; I then suggest
> he post the previous one, too, and give him my permission to do so;
> he THEN responds that if *I* feel the charming "debate" should be
> made public, I ought to make the decision; and, having got no reply
> to that jewel of logic, posts his FIRST message to me to the list
> claiming he'd pressed a wrong button or something yesterday morning.
>  
> 
> And no one as much as blinks an eye.  
> 
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Vaska -

Sounds like you gave permission. Sounds like Charles said that he 
posted to the list by mistake. Of course, your use of the word 
"claims" suggests that you don't believe him (btw, it generally is 
kinda difficult to forward a message by accident, unless you're 
Rosemary Woods), but in any case you say you gave him permission to do 
so. When you posted your correspondence with Andrew, you said right 
up front that it was without permission.

I've had a little sidebar with Charles, just in order to not overload 
the list with a more noise. Interesting little contre temps, but 
neither of us have copied those messages to the list. 

It's really pretty simple. Don't publish private messages unless 
there is an overwhelming need.

Henry Musikar
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