Denial of Access thread. Can GDPR prevent me sharing an email ?

Concerto said:
Some posts are now coming with an automatic need for a street dictionary. I, along with several others, are not from the street talk generation. So please do not use them for clarity of your comments. Other I decide the content of post not worth reading. (OK it should read Otherwise I will decide the content of your post is not worth reading.)

Clarity of a comment is important to make a post is worth reading.
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Indeed. Which is why, when asking my crew to trim the genoa, I always tell them to turn the handle on the mechanical winding device that attaches the rope to the lower back corner of the front sail.
FFS, forum shortcuts are no different from sailing terminology. If you don't know them, you need to learn them if you are to pretend to have any proficiency. Otherwise, just push the big horizontal stick attached to the lever device on the back of the boat and point it elsewhere.
 
Elecglitch said:
:encouragement:

There is something pleasantly ironic about someone who continually uses the, IMHO correct, Latin pluralisation of forum, being criticised for using 'street talk' by someone who appears to have limited ability to write the English language himself.

e&oe
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I trust you also refer to multiple residential buildings as häuser, to comply with the logic of using plurals from the word's source language.
 
RichardS said:
RAP? What the hell does that stand for? I know what .... I'll Google it.

OK ... it's one of the following:

RAP Remedial Action Plan
RAP Recurrent Abdominal Pain
RAP Right Atrial Pressure
RAP Regulatory Assistance Project
RAP Radiological Assistance Program
RAP Remedial Action Program
RAP Regional Addiction Prevention
RAP Repository Access Protocol
RAP Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis
RAP Right Arterial Pressure
RAP Regional Acceleratory Phenomenon
RAP Rear Area Protection
RAP Remedial Accomplishment Plan
RAP Renal Arterial Pressure
RAP Resistance Against Psychiatry
RAP Redundant Acronym Phrase
RAP Recovery and Progress

So it's obviously medical. Are you feeling well, Vic? ;)

Richard
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And there me thinking it meant
rapid aging pensioners :)
 
newtothis said:
Indeed. Which is why, when asking my crew to trim the genoa, I always tell them to turn the handle on the mechanical winding device that attaches the rope to the lower back corner of the front sail.
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Yes, I do that too. Good crews are sooo hard to find these days, don't you think?
 
newtothis said:
I trust you also refer to multiple residential buildings as häuser, to comply with the logic of using plurals from the word's source language.
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On the other hand Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang Lieder, not lieds.

I asked my uncle, who is a German professor of German and a music buff what the German word for Lied is, and it appears that there isn't one; they don't distinguish between woe-ridden songs about beautiful millers' daughters and any other sort of song.
 
JumbleDuck said:
On the other hand Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang Lieder, not lieds.

I asked my uncle, who is a German professor of German and a music buff what the German word for Lied is, and it appears that there isn't one; they don't distinguish between woe-ridden songs about beautiful millers' daughters and any other sort of song.
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I went to Leeds once, it did hit "woeful", but not so much "beautiful millers daughter". So I feel the Germans could accept a loanword there.
 
Did someone mention Germans?! Steady now... the danger of invoking Godwin's Law is getting ever closer..!

AFATOPIC (now there's an acronym with a ring to it!), we're all wasting a lot of time on an unknown one-trick-pony with a total of 11 posts to date over two threads, both about the same (possibly ficticious?) up-the-creek-without-a-paddle predicament (or a real one but possibly of their own making?) and 49 puzzled visitors to his profile so far. When offered advice (the most sensible suggestions being to speak to a solicitor) the OP's silence is deafening.

OTOH (the left one), we've gained some minor snippets about GPDR and copyright.

Must dash - got a kettle to boil!
 
The suggestion the letter writer could claim damages for copyright infringement.
So I was wondering. How the author of the letter, could be damaged by copyrighted letter being published. If the said letter was not published somewhere?

Every so often I get angry emails about downloading something. Which has been copyrighted by someone as a game song or movie. Which presumably we should have paid the royalties on but didn’t because we down loaded it.
I of course loose a great deal of sleep over this:)

The author would have lost no revenue. Or royalties.
 
Art. 10 ECHR - the right to receive and impart information. Your rights are being assaulted!
 
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@Binnacle, since you are obviously a moderator, your closure of the latest thread within seconds of your post 'requesting' it was a pretty good give away, despite the identity that you are using here being less than a month old. Could you remind us of the forum policy on using multiple identities?
 
Elecglitch said:
@Binnacle, since you are obviously a moderator, your closure of the latest thread within seconds of your post 'requesting' it was a pretty good give away, despite the identity that you are using here being less than a month old. Could you remind us of the forum policy on using multiple identities?
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Giving them the benefit of the doubt, could it be a Mod who has a genuine problem and wanted some advice without it being asked by a Mod? If that is the case, it seems fair to me.
 
CLB said:
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, could it be a Mod who has a genuine problem and wanted some advice without it being asked by a Mod? If that is the case, it seems fair to me.
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Agreed, I don't think it's a problem is someone wants to use an alias is they have a problem but if it's a genuine problem then surely disclosing the area might mean someone in that locality might be able to help, be it checking on the boat or helping with access.

The last post in the closed thread
some owners have private access to their mooring
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, could you not come to some sort of arrangement with these other mooring owners, even if it's just for yourself? Just seems to be a lack of details, if I was Binnacle I wouldn't be trying to fight a battle he may only win till March. Get down to the boat and if he can't row a mile to his boat find a fisherman/harbourmaster that'll take you out to it for a drink, check on the boat and they start looking for another place to keep it.

#modgate
 
Elecglitch said:
@Binnacle, since you are obviously a moderator, your closure of the latest thread within seconds of your post 'requesting' it was a pretty good give away, despite the identity that you are using here being less than a month old. Could you remind us of the forum policy on using multiple identities?
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++1. I have been on YBW since it started, and I have never yet seen a thread blocked because the Op didnt like what people said. Over the years i have been occasionally saddened/annoyed/ by the way people treated things i said, but I have no way of stopping it. So why has this thread been closed. It broke no rules, it was not discussing anything currently sub judice, and it was raising an issue important to all of us

I was critical because the OP was confusing the issue by bringing in emotional pleas about the distance he had to travel by road and water, a part of boat ownership which is the norm for a great many of us, and which was distracting from the quite serious original issue.

We have a constitutional right of free access through UK coastal waters. However those rights do not extend to the land adjoining those waters. As a great many of us can only access our biats across privately owned land, whether it be a Marina, Boat yard or soemones private field, an argument about maintaining that access is of concern to all of us.

the thread is important, it should remain open. Its closure so immediately after the request was made shows the OP is a moderator, Thats not an issue. Using his powers to stop a valid argument that he simply didnt like, is.
 
Just in case the OP's question hasn't been specifically answered. - GDPR has nothing to do with copyright. It is about protecting people's personal information - specifically information that can identify an individual. It doesn't apply to letters between individuals but it means that corporate entities may only request, hold, process etc. someone's personal information if they can do so legitimately. One way of gaining legitimacy is to have the data-subject's consent. There are other legitimate reasons why someone may hold or process a person's personal data which means that consent is not always needed or sought.
There may be copyright, or other issues with reproducing the letter but GDPR is, as many have suggested, a red herring.
 
I haven't read everything, so apologies if said elsewhere, but....

I have always been under the impression that emails are non secure means of communication. And that one not should say anything on an email that they would not write on a post card which can be read by anyone.
 
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