On 10/18/12 6:43 AM, David Hutto wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
David,
While I acknowledge and appreciate your efforts to be less aggressive on
this list, I think you have crossed a line by forwarding the contents of
an obviously personal email containing CLEARLY PRIVATE MATTERS to a
public list without permission, without even anonymising it.
I get that it was a in a thread, and we;'re always told to respond
all, unless otherwise asked, and they didn't directly ask, so I
responded back to the list like the etiquette dictates.
I know that you have apologized for this later in the email, and I appreciate
that, but I would like to explicitly state some of the expectations of etiquette
for this list. I don't mean to chastise excessively.
I'm afraid that you were either misinformed, or you misinterpreted what you were
told. When someone sends you an email that is *only addressed to you*, you
should not forward that to the list without getting explicit permission. It is
possible that someone just forgot to include the list, but it's also quite
likely that they meant it only for you, particularly when it is of a more
personal nature. Etiquette dictates that you should not assume that they meant
to include the list. If you are in doubt, you must ask. This rule trumps others
if you think there is a conflict in interpretation.
If you do make a private response, it is always a good idea to explicitly state
so, but the lack of such a statement is not an excuse for the recipient to make
the email public. The default assumption must be that they meant to send it to
exactly those people they actually sent it to.
Thank you for listening.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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