The posted message was simply off-list discussion, and was not confidential. The message subsequently became relevant to a public discussion because it was referred to on-list by Pete Resnick who made on-list comments about it. But this was discussed in May of last year, 9 months ago. It seems a bit late to reply to this now... --Dean On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, James Seng wrote: > It is considered bad taste to forward private message to public list > without the author permission, regardless of the reasons you have to do so. > > james > > Dean Anderson wrote: > > This is the message to which Pete Resnick refers. > > > > I did not get this until Pete mentioned the message number and I searched > > for it. > > > > It is the _last_ private message John sent to me. > > > > In his other previous messages, John did not mention this experience. > > > > --Dean > > > >