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General Discussion => Moderation Discussion => Topic started by: Ché Biko on 02 Apr 2013, 10:37
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Below, I quote the relevant section of rule 7, with the important part underlined.
Rule 7: Respect privacy. Do not post for public viewing any emails or Private Messages unless you have the explicit written permission of each person involved in the exchange.
I already asume this rule prohibits me from posting an EVE-mail sent by The Mittanni unless I recieve his permission.
Now, considering he send the mail to multiple persons, do I need to ask each of the recipients for their permission? Or does "involved" mean they contributed words to the correspondence as well, so I don't have to ask them?
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An "exchange" is a two-way process, sending and receiving.
I would think, based on the wording, that unless others have contributed to the conversation, they don't need to give any permission at all as nothing contained in the message is theirs. Just don't include their names.
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Yeah. Essentially, the people you would need to get an okay from would be whoever actually did the communicating. With a mail, that is pretty straightforward in most situations (whoever sent it), unless what they sent was itself a copy of some other communication.
Edit: Also, though it's probably not a common case (but it is one that I'm about to run into myself) it is totally kosher to post communications from event actors or other CCP controlled NPC puppets of whatever description.
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Thanks for the answers.
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I assume that communication in a "public" forum is also fine to post, even if it is only you and that individual having a convo in it?
Also, if the audience for a communication was extremely broad, is that still considered a private message?
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For a public forum, if the conversation in question takes place in a publicly accessable area (like an IGS discussion between two people) that's fine.
For the other, depends on what you mean by 'extremely broad'. For example, communications from a corp channel probably still wouldn't work under the rule unless the people involved okayed it. If there isn't really an expectation of privacy though (like a public mailing list) then you are probably okay.
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What if I have a public mailing list mail which is a copy of a corp mail, which was a circulated private message? Huh? What then, huh?
:P
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What if I have a public mailing list mail which is a copy of a corp mail, which was a circulated private message? Huh? What then, huh?
:P
(http://i.imgur.com/9zn3Mje.gif)
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Well played.