- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:45:00 +0000
- To: gf@medianet.org
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
>I disagree with your thinking that email should be treated >differently than any other form of content on the Internet. Surely >it is the intended use that matters. >When your email and my email get posted here... > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/thread.html > >..they turn into web pages. Are these pages not worthy of "tags" on >the grounds that they originated as mail? Precisely. Once archived they become web pages, and then can be marked up, I agree. But the markup should be part of the archiving process, not the emailing process. I consider email a private communication between people, primarily. Most of my emails are not a form of content on the internet, and I would not use email if they were. You may disagree with my thinking, but frankly I do not give a damn about your opinion. Let me take this opportunity of warning you that I consider any attempt by you or anyone else to access most of my emails to be a form of intrusive hacking, and I will take energetic steps to dissuade you from accessing them, including all legal electronic means to frustrate you should you attempt it. I wish that email could be routinely encrypted for privacy. As you say, it is intended use that matters. Most of my emails are private communications between individuals or small groups of people, so keep your nose out of my business. Email to an archived site is a more public form of dissemination, but even there it seems to me that the primary responsibility for making the content publicly available should reside with the proprieter of the archive itself. Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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