Saffy
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I thought the rule about posting PMs and such was clear enough before, but TanMan apparently wanted to use semantics, and said "well the rules say nothing about chat logs". To me and most people I know, it is common sense that one should not post any form of private communications on a public forum without explicit consent of the parties involved, and regardless of the source of the logs.
This is nothing to do with the scamming discussion, but I just want to say I'm not so clear about the idea that private communications are sacrosanct. To say so is a poison-pen's charter.
If you agree with somebody that a subsequent communication sent from them will be kept secret, then it should be. If an unsolicited communication is sent to you, it is up to you whether you make it public or not. You are under no intrinsic legal or moral obligation to conceal it.
That's going to be a judgement call often. We rightly take most private conversation as being off the record. But to extrapolate rules of private conversation to the internet without considering the differences is as foolish in one extreme as it is in the other.