Forwarding an informational post from one topical public forum to another
related-topic forum is not considered rude, although if you wanted to be
extra nice, you could notify the original author that you've done this, so
they're not surprised to hear from strangers later on. A good example: an
announcement of, say, a Lyle Lovett benefit concert is posted to a general
music forum by the show's organizers, and a reader passes the posting on to
the Lyle Lovett fan forum.
Forwarding flame posts to every group you can think of for the purpose of
informing a wider world what an idiot your opponent is, is considered rude.
:) Forwarding an entire Digest for the sake of a five line posting buried
inside is considered rude. Forwarding a binary encoded HTML MIME attachment
from some board or forum into a text based list or Digest is considered rude
regardless of the author's intentions.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Netiquette: forwarding things to other forums
>
> Dumb question time: I was e-chatting with a colleague and I mentioned
> that IMO it was impolite and improper to forward a person's postings
> in one forum to another forum without their knowledge and consent.
> He argued back, in essence, that "public is public", and it wasn't
> like he had divulged private correspondence or anything, and I should
> just chill out...
