So Michael Arrington was cc'ed on a sensitive acquisition e-mail where, presumably, only one of the parties has agreed that the information should be public. And not even explicitly so. And he chooses to publish it directly on Techcrunch.... That's despicable, and not exactly good for his reputation.
> presumably, only one of the parties has agreed that the information should be public. Sending an email like this to Arrington and telling him he might find it 'interesting' amounts to saying 'print this'. Further, all involved parties in a story do not have to agree before it's published. If an employee is harassed by her manager, does the NYT seek the manager's permission before publishing the story? I have indulg…
Goodrich could have done better by doing a 'cc' instead of a 'Bcc'. If it concerns MYB they would have wrote back immediately to TC & Goodrich.
It is really bad for Goodrich now on people would restrain from sending any serious emails to him. He has closed one mode of communication for contacting him/his business.
Also MYB should have just said something like 'lets talk'. Its bad to start a deal with final numbers on an email without even knowing the intent from the other side.