I've not included the sender's identity on these occasions because sometime folks have ideas of what they consider private
I'll add that there is an argument that if someone entrusts something to us they are also entrusting us to do with it as we see fit unless told otherwise
In this case it appears to me you acted responsible with what was given to you. Then the sender does, in my opinion, overreact as though you've broken a trust.
Marvin, I think that there is color in your thinking. And I know why. It is because you broadcast WT private documents on your blog and on this Forum without permission from the WT, so in my opinion, it is a trifle for you when someone publishes a PM, and that is why you advise such publisher that they acted responsibly. It is axiomatic that you are not an impartial arbitrator on this subject matter. In my opinion, neither can you be trusted to arbitrate with any objectivity whatsoever anything relating to privacy in connection with the WTS.
Regarding your view on my overreacting, you did not make it clear to what. There are 2 issues, broadcasting my PM and making fun of my screen name. I objected to Morpheus referring to me, and thus inciting others to refer to me by variations of my screen name. That is not proper. You did not consider that in your verdict.
Regarding my objection to Morpheus making my PM public, evidently, some have concluded that I am in B now or in the past because of the questions in my PM. However, if that is the case, I certainly am qualified to disagree with Morpheus on other threads involving B policy even though he claims in an above post to you that I called him a liar. If you read the posts that he refers to, you will see that he is a dick. In that related post on a thread involving ex bethelites, he first resorts to remarks, and then in another post he agrees with me.
Albeit, retaliation and vindictiveness is not a proper motive for disclosing a PM. I have defeated Morpheus in debates on other threads and because I have silenced him,he is angry and resorts to, not only to publishing my PM, but connecting it to me, and mockingly doing so, referring to me as fisherperson instead of my screen name in connection with my PM.
I do not think, that it is the responsible thing to do, to lash out at someone, in retaliation, by disclosing a private written message, to get back at ( the belief of) being called a liar. I can certainly understand disclosing PM in good faith and with no harm intended. But Morpheus has done this jeeringly and he himself has stated that his reasons are retaliatory. But you encourage him to be like you. And advise him that he acted responsibly.