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Richard Pyle sez: > I'm enjoying this thread a lot because it's a topic I hadn't previously > given much thought to. I'd like to know what people think of the ethics > of forwarding a message posted on techdiver to someone who is not a > subscriber to techdiver (assuming that techdiver remains open to > subscription by anyone with an email address). If you think it would be > unethical, would it be unethical to tell a non-subscriber how to access > the techdiver archives? What about telling a non-subscriber how to subscribe? There's nothing unethical about any of these; the subscription info and archive info is readily available from many places (including the list-of-lists). It is, however, unethical (IMHO) to forward, post, or otherwise publish posts to techdiver without some annotation as to the origin and original context (thread and techdiver). The letters section of the recent A/C section did not distinguish between letters to the editor, posts to techdiver, posts to CompuServe (the Scuba forum), and posts to who-knows-where else. I don't think this is right, but OTOH, it is not the most major travesty of justice in history...I'm just glad that A/C seems to be changing for the better... -frank -- fhd@in*.ne* | Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their 1 212 559 5534 | absence. 1 917 992 2248 | -- Dijkstra 1 718 746 7061 |
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