Dear Mikael

Permission from the sender does not seem to be enough. The scope might need to encompass anybody specifically mentioned in those emails. It needs to be clarified or defined whether the screening real names or replacing them with identifiable initials or predefined random set of letters (specified for each person in advance) resolves the issue. Unless that happens, it makes things complicated. One remains free to let their real name stay unmasked, if they choose to. My vote would be that if anybody publishes their own email in a public forum, they should mask the real names of any person mentioned in the email and replace it with predefined letters for the respective individual(s). If anybody would like to publish some email that somebody else has authored, they need to gain permission from the respective author and apply the same real name masking process as mentioned above. In that case, it further needs to be defined whether a simple nod is sufficient or a definite process needs to be there for documentation of consent.

I would suggest that the emails in the private lists be free to publish without any requirement of permission but obligatorily with the real names masked following the process mentioned above. Perhaps a on-wiki consensus in needed on this.

Please feel free to share this email with the boards of which I am not a member.

Regards

Diptanshu