On Tuesday 18 October 2005 08:32 pm, Phill MV wrote: > That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it > actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting > such an email verbatim on a website?
Legally binding, maybe But enforcable, hardly. Had the individual mailed you directly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversation between the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to share privileged information with you, which you then made public). However, as the OP posted his message to the mailing list which is of course archived, republished as digests, and generally available from the website. So there was no intent on his/their part to discretely share information with one or a few individuals. Look at the guy that just got busted for releasing early information on some apple product (the ipod mini, I think?) There's an example of what can happen if you share info that is given to you by a corporate entity and you go spreading it around. But once the individual/company make it public (ala posting a message like that to the list), it no longer carries privilege with it, unless of course it contained information that you used in some way to develop a competing product/service, at which point you've opened a different can of worms... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
