From ts@uwasa.fi Tue 25 Feb 23:40:00 1992
Subject: The public nature of garbo.uwasa.fi questions and answers 

I feel it advisable to inform the gentle garbo.uwasa.fi users of the
following matter concerning privacy / publicity.  I get very much
email concerning garbo.uwasa.fi files and problems and UseNet news. 
As an FTP archive site moderator I have to answer countless
questions and views from the users practically every day.  Quite
often these questions or views are of general interest or
applicability, and I often make selected questions and my answers
public in the /pc/pd2/post*.txt information files, and sometimes
even on the UseNet news.  The same goes for useful user feedback on
the programs on garbo. 

This means that unless clearly stated otherwise by the sender (at
the very beginning of the message, please), or very obvious from the
context or the contents, I consider all email, all text in the
upload announcements, and all file uploads publicly available and
publicly publishable material. 

The reason is that we get so much uploads, announcements, questions
and views, that if we conversed back and forth with each and
everyone about their material and messages, we would be totally
swamped because we already are stretched as we are.  I have to
organize matters in a rational way to be able to perform the
moderator's functions, and making public the interesting questions
from users and the answers to their queries is part of this. 

   All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun