Sorry I missed this discussion earlier. It's a kinda sore spot with me--I replied to a post once, and while I was composing the response, the poster deleted it and sent me a PM with the info. It was not that sensitive an issue, but months later I was accused of posting private PMs.
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Originally Posted by Jim
5. Privacy Issues
Do not post private email you have received without the express permission of the sender.
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Back up.
You all apparently have forgotten
Rule 11:
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11. Editing & Revisionism
Edit your posts with care. There's no problem with editing a post later to change the tone or to correct spelling and the like. But changing content is not allowed! This is a slippery path that can be seen as revisionism. You may edit your post for up to 24 hours. Also, when quoting other posters, you may trim the text down to brief snippets to address something in particular, but do not misquote others or alter their content to suggest they've stated things which they haven't.
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Once posters have said things, they've said them. It's on the wind from then on. Deleting it,
especially when you try to make others look bad when they respond to it, is wrong.
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Originally Posted by Jim
Perhaps a bit of a gray area...
If you receive a PM that contains a post, the fact that the post is public would seem to meet the "permission to quote" requirement; besides, you're really quoting the post. However, if the post has been deleted, that would indicate that the poster did not want it public, which indicates you do not have permission to quote it.
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I don't see it as a gray area at all. The private email was sent by BAUT, the sender is BAUT, not the poster. It's a notification of a public posting. You really are quoting the post.
Of course, the poster may not have wanted it public--but then, they shouldn't have posted it in a public forum. They broke the forum rules by deleting it.