[Air-L] Permission to quote air-l list

[Christian Nelson]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Alex Halavais wrote:

>  While I think it may be a nice gesture to ask an author's  
> permission before quoting them, those posting to the list should  
> recognize that it is a public forum, and the things written here  
> are published to the world.

Perhaps this quote is the most useful for supporting Pam's thesis  
(one I've been working on, too) that much of the Internet resembles  
face-to-face communication. Why else would Internet researchers have  
to be reminded that posting emails is a form of publication unless,  
of course, Internet posting is so pervasively considered to be  
something other than publishing--e.g., f2f communication.