[ILUG] Got My First Linux Book

[ccostelloe at flogas.ie]

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, ccostelloe at flogas.ie wrote:
> 
> > The email was addressed to ILUG, so only ILUGgers are permitted to
> > view it, i.e. it cannot be archived for view by others.
> 
> Bull.
>  
> > Implicit authorisation only arises if there were no sig conditions,
> > i.e. you could expect that it may appear publically since you sent
> > it to a newsgroup.
> 
> Implicit authorisation occured when the person, having subscribed to
> a public email list, with public archives, knowingly sent email to
> it.

It is not the person's call when the company added the sig.
 
> > However, the sig has an explicit ban on distributing it beyond ILUG
> > unless that company authorises you (presumably in writing), which
> > would override anything implicit.
> 
> The sig can not impose restrictions after the fact. 

The issue of distributing it further than ilug is before the fact: the sig says don't do it, and you subsequently do it.

> Had the poster 
> had some kind of reasonable expectation that his post would not be 
> distributed far and wide and archived, eg through prior agreement, 
> authorisation for further dsitribution would then be needed. However, 
> clearly the poster does not have this expectation.
 
It is not the poster's call.  It would arise if someone from Microsoft exposed somethingthrough a Microsoft email account with a similar sig: Microsoft could do nothing about ilug viewing it, but they could pursue ilug for subsequently posting it on the archives.
 
> Legal notice: If you, here after known as the reader, believe that
> appended text to an email, or text otherwise appearing after the main
> body of an email, here after known as an "email disclaimer", has any
> capacity to impose legally binding conditions on a receiving party,
> be that party having been directly addressed by the email to which
> the email disclaimer is attached or not, then be advised that by
> having read this email you have agreed to pay Paul Jakma, here after
> known as the author, a literary licence fee of €500 or other amount
> such as may be agreed at a later stage between the read and author at
> the author's discretion, and that the reader is obliged to contact
> the author at the address indicated for the author in this email
> within 30 days to arrange for settlement of the literary licence fee,
> and that the failure of which to do so on the part of the reader
> grants the author recourse to the standard civil procedures for the
> recovery of moneys owed against the reader.

Rubbish.  This issue is about privacy after you receive an email.  It is the same as sending a letter to the Irish Times marked private & confidential: the Irish Times can read it, but you can pursue a case against them if they sunsequently publish it.