[Coco] Quoting private email

[tonym]

>---- Original Message ----
>From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
>Sent: 9/26/2013 8:12:03 AM
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Quoting private email
>
>
> Let's not provoke any crazies out there, okay?
>
>This guy certainly fits that bill and I doubt he needs any provoking to 
>manifest such behavior.  He sent personal e-mail threatening me with legal 
>action for disclosing the contents of a prior transmission that I was NOT 
>THE RECIPIENT OF!  I did not appreciate it and told him so in rather 
>explicit terms before adding his address to my killfile.
>
>Someone should point him to a Wikipedia explanation of the "Streisand 
>Effect".
>
>If I were in your position I would simply ignore him.  The internet never 
>forgets anything, so deleting it from your personally owned list archive 
>is almost meaningless.  If he has any technical background (which I must 
>assume he does) he knows that quite well.  There may even be a legal 
>justification for not doing anything.  Much like putting a fence around 
>Huntington Gorge could be deemed an admission that it poses a danger, it's 
>very possible that taking steps to remove the thread could be imputed as 
>recognition on your part that there was an infringement.  IANAL, but 
>thought I'd get that out there.
>
>Steve
>
>


Exactly as Steve pointed out...

If has even an inkling of technical "know-how," and "self-googled," then he already knows it's out there forever.

Moral of the story?

Don't be a condescending pr!ck in the emails you send, especially from your company's email system...




Tony