Advice for a torn and lovelorn BoingBoing reader

By at 7:22 am Wednesday, Nov 8

Mike asks, "If you meet a cute girl at a Democratic Victory party, but she QAs DRM for Microsoft, is asking for her email address evil?"

Reader replies:

Matt Baum advises,

No, it's not evil; but you can only email her once, and only from a computer which she has authorized. You are not permitted to email her from any address other than the one from which you initially established conversation. Also, at any point, she may decide to switch to a different communications platform, and may discontinue support for previous means of contact.
Felix Cohen says,
I think my response has to be; get her number, dude; you can always get the email later (...) but a voice chat is a lot more interesting for both of you.
Felix's full reply is here: Link.

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