wrote the E-mails. If this is correct, and you only used the content to warn someone, and didn't give any personal information while doing so, then I consider what you did to gain the E-mails the lesser of two evils. I'm sorry but your understanding of the situation is incorrect, or at least incomplete. TF accessed the listserv a full month before any conversation happened regarding Mr. Payton. Furthermore, none of the emails TF forwarded included any direct references to seeking Mr. Payton's removal from a leadership position at CFI, they were simply complaints about Mr. Payton's ill-considered tweet. It's true that TF redacted the headers and identifying information from the messages, but the larger point is that he still has the messages he accessed through unauthorized means, and those messages include personal information about some FTB bloggers that they want to remain private. Many of these bloggers are innocent bystanders with no opinion on the TF/PZ feud, and the only assurance they have that the information won't be misused is TF's word, which I'm sure you can understand they have little incentive to trust. TF used unethical means to access a private listserv that he was explicitly removed from, for no apparent reason other than his own ego. I can think of no other reason why TF would want to access those backchannel emails when he did, and if he has a reason for his actions he hasn't been forthcoming in this comment thread. No, again your understanding of