Sharing Off-List Answers to On-List Questions

[RJLipkin at aol.com]

Eugene might have the  authority to answer this question alone, but I'm 
asking this question of him and  also List members generally.
 
        What is the appropriate  protocol regarding sharing off-List 
responses to on-List questions. For example,  I recently asked a question "Is Teaching 
Conlaw to 1Ls Suicidal?"  and received a few responses.  One response asked 
me to share the  other responses. Is it proper to forward the responses to 
those requesting it  despite the fact that these responses were addressed to me 
alone? Cut and  pasting--in order to preserve the identity of the author--is, 
for me, an arduous  process.
 
        I suppose, on the one  hand, one can argue that despite being 
addressed to me a response to a  List question, in principle, is directed to the 
entire List, and is  off-List because there might not be general interest in the 
question. On the  other hand, some responses might indicate a quasi-personal 
trait of the author,  for example, how someone hates teaching Conlaw to 1Ls.
 
        I'm probably making too  much of this issue, but I'm uncomfortable in 
forwarding Jones' email to Smith  when it was addressed to me alone.  What 
assumptions, if any, can we make  about confidentially, if the issue even 
implicates confidentiality, of off-List  responses to on-List questions?  Thanks.
 
Bobby
 
Robert Justin  Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of  Law
Delaware
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