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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
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Subject: Re: Never ever send Pavel private mail unless you want him to publish it.
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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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