Chris, I am responding to your message here as I do not know your direct email address. In Ferret list issue 576, you wrote: ----- Begin Included Message ----- [I've deleted Brad Laraway's message, which was obviously email directly to you. It's considered poor form to publish private email. If Brad would like to resend his message here, that is fine. I should also point out that the FML isn't intended to be an extension of rec.pets conversations and this appears to have been a question by Tyler on rec.pets, which Brad responded to by email. Then Tyler sends his reply to the FML. Wierd ;-)] ----- End Included Message ----- I don't see why it was necessary to delete Brad Laraway's reply to my email. I composed my mail to him, but also cc'd it to the ferret list because it is a question that I thought others ferret owners might be interested in and to which they might have a good response. Similarly, that is why you should have allowed Brad's post to go through. What good is it for everyone to read my question...but not see the (more important) responses to my question?? I can't see why a response to my question about driving with ferrets would be considered "private". Also, you seem interested that I responded to the ferret list about a question that (I guess) was brought up on rec.pets. The subject may have been brought up on rec.pets, but I thought that it was more salient to the FML. I also thought that I would get a better answer on the FML since it consists of all ferret owners...most of whom I assume are also drivers :-) . Why does it matter WHERE the idea arose? Anyway, I just wanted to point these things out. I was a little troubled by your deleteing of Brad's response. It just made me think that if the list is over-moderated...how many good responses have I missed because they were deleted? Well, I guess I'll end this here. I didn't mean for this to sound as serious as it came out. This is your FML so you must feel comfortable with it. Sorry for the pontification.... -Tyler [It is a point of law that mail, whether paper or electronic, is copyright by the originator of the mail. By sending you a copy, they're granting you permission to have a copy of it. By forwarding private email, particularly to a broadcast medium, you are stepping out of bounds of the implied permission. On USENET, this is taken to even greater degree - you'd get flamed to a crisp for it. While I have no reason to believe that Brad would object to me carrying his email message to you in the FML, he has to permit it before I'd put it in the FML. How many responses have you missed? This is the first thing I've deleted in quite some time. If I recall correctly, the only previous episodes were with stuff taken from GEnie - for the same reason. GEnie gets quite sticky about such things. Indeed, because GEnie wants me to pre-censor FML issues, I have prohibited GEnie uploading the FML to their internal forums.] [Posted in FML issue 0579]