On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 00:29, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Nadav Har'El wrote: > > >[1] If I remember correctly, it was Rebinu Gershom around the year 1000 > >who declared it forbidden to read other people's mail without permission. > > > > > This argument is flawed because of a perhaps unexpected point Nadav has > forgotten. While it is true that Gershom forbade read other people's > mail (among the other things this Herem forbade), Haramim only hold true > for 1000 years, and this particular Herem expired at around 1999. You > are, once again, allowed to read other people's mail, just as you are, > once again, allowed to marry more than one woman. This is no joke.
Great! The Haalacha suffers from a Y2k problem :-) Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "Money talks, bullshit walks and GNU awks." -- Shachar "Sun" Shemesh, debt collector for the GNU/Yakuza ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
