Re: Never ever send Pavel private mail unless you want him to publish it.

Stuart MacDonald (stuartm@connecttech.com)
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:16:37 -0500

From: "Vlad@geekizoid.com" <vlad@geekizoid.com>
> Unlikely. Email is more akin to the 'informal letter' of the 19th and
20th
> century. There is an expectation of privacy.

Email is publically readable by any person in the transmission system,
exactly the same way postcards are. It is *not* like a letter in the
simple fact that a letter is sealed and therefore unreadable (legally)
by the transmission system.

..Stu

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