Legal Action
Interesting thing today, Fern rings me on the mobile, apparently someone's offended by her blog, and has threatened action against her, It was forwarded to fern and then to yours truly via a mutual friend who was unfortunate enough to be the object of this particular person's fancy. After the rejection, this person directed his energies to blogging about how big a dissapointment our friend was.
In defence of the poor girl, who was too much of a lady to confront him directly, Fern went to her aid, thereby making her the object of attention, inciting a couple of malicious emails, culmulating in one particularly nasty message in which yours truly was named, even though i've kept my nose out of this matter.
This however, is pure comedic gold. I'll quote directly from the SMS:
"I might take up some action against Fern for publishing my personal mail online without consent".
that statement is wrong on so many levels, it's not funny.
First of all, there's no punctuation.
Looking at the SMS, it is easy to see that the sender is emotionally distressed, and probably has been thinking about nothing but the blog entry. I don't know if fern should be happy that someone's paying so much attention to her ranting, or disturbed at the fact
I'll do something out of character, and assume. I've assumed that the action mentioned means something legal. And we all had a good laugh at the possibility.
First of all, there isn't any law stating that it is illegal to publish private email sent. An email sent to me becomes my property, meaning i can do as i see fit. I could forward it to everyone in my address book, the mainstream press or as fern did, post it in HER blog. No permission is needed.
The message doesn't come under the Official Secrets Act, as it does not contain, as far as i can see, any military, commercial or industrial secrets. If you did not want your dirty laundry aired, you shouldn't have sent an email of that nature in the first place.
If that message was meant to be private, there should be a disclaimer, level of confidentiality and a classifying authority. As far as i'm concerned, if the sender was not acting on official duties for a government, commercial or military organization, and the message contained nothing that can be loosely classified as an official.If the message contained confidential material,the sender should bear the brunt of the blame, seeing that there would have been nothing to write about if the message never got out in the first
From what I see, the sender was deploying scare tactics, trying to repress the awful truth, that he/she was desparate for someone's attention. Making threats against a close friend would give that kind of attention, the wrong kind though.
Sliming her friends does not make her like you more, it just shows your lack of social skills. If you claim to move away swiftly, then i would suggest that you take your own advice deal with it and move on.
Sending SMSes, threatening to sue and generally making a fool of yourself, is childish and is conduct unbecoming of a gentleman.
Interesting thing today, Fern rings me on the mobile, apparently someone's offended by her blog, and has threatened action against her, It was forwarded to fern and then to yours truly via a mutual friend who was unfortunate enough to be the object of this particular person's fancy. After the rejection, this person directed his energies to blogging about how big a dissapointment our friend was.
In defence of the poor girl, who was too much of a lady to confront him directly, Fern went to her aid, thereby making her the object of attention, inciting a couple of malicious emails, culmulating in one particularly nasty message in which yours truly was named, even though i've kept my nose out of this matter.
This however, is pure comedic gold. I'll quote directly from the SMS:
"I might take up some action against Fern for publishing my personal mail online without consent".
that statement is wrong on so many levels, it's not funny.
First of all, there's no punctuation.
Looking at the SMS, it is easy to see that the sender is emotionally distressed, and probably has been thinking about nothing but the blog entry. I don't know if fern should be happy that someone's paying so much attention to her ranting, or disturbed at the fact
I'll do something out of character, and assume. I've assumed that the action mentioned means something legal. And we all had a good laugh at the possibility.
First of all, there isn't any law stating that it is illegal to publish private email sent. An email sent to me becomes my property, meaning i can do as i see fit. I could forward it to everyone in my address book, the mainstream press or as fern did, post it in HER blog. No permission is needed.
The message doesn't come under the Official Secrets Act, as it does not contain, as far as i can see, any military, commercial or industrial secrets. If you did not want your dirty laundry aired, you shouldn't have sent an email of that nature in the first place.
If that message was meant to be private, there should be a disclaimer, level of confidentiality and a classifying authority. As far as i'm concerned, if the sender was not acting on official duties for a government, commercial or military organization, and the message contained nothing that can be loosely classified as an official.If the message contained confidential material,the sender should bear the brunt of the blame, seeing that there would have been nothing to write about if the message never got out in the first
From what I see, the sender was deploying scare tactics, trying to repress the awful truth, that he/she was desparate for someone's attention. Making threats against a close friend would give that kind of attention, the wrong kind though.
Sliming her friends does not make her like you more, it just shows your lack of social skills. If you claim to move away swiftly, then i would suggest that you take your own advice deal with it and move on.
Sending SMSes, threatening to sue and generally making a fool of yourself, is childish and is conduct unbecoming of a gentleman.
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