On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:06 +0000, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:57:36 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
If you are not able to see the essential difference between publishing an email on Wikipedia and quietly asking a few trusted friends for advice in confidence then I'm afraid I can't help you.
A breach of confidence does not depend on whether the information was shared to a broad public or to a limited circle of friends. The latter is perhaps more insidious, because the person whose confidence is breached is unable to respond to the breach.
You are welcome to this opinion. In truth I could have got all the accounts from a CheckUser anyway.
No one in this thread have suggested the actual block is incorrect. I for example do not know enough (anything) to say. What I'm and Ec is saying is that in our opinion, violating ones confidence is violating ones confidence no matter the method you choose to employ it.
Now think about all this talking about how Giano could have done things a different way, in summary, by using the established and normal channel. The same can then be said if your suggestion is right (which I'm assuming to be the case) that CU would have come to the same conclusion. In that case, why didn't you get those CU and then block based on its result. That would be using the established and normal process.
KTC