bel, I'd ask that you read a bit more carefully.

First, you are ignoring all of my comment other than the white "aside". That is not the meat of the matter.

But as to that side point: I've been quite clear on that my position is that communications are not automatically privileged, merely because the sender wants them to be. That does not bar the recipient from agreeing to confidentiality -- and when the recipient has made that agreement, he or she durn well ought to honor it.

Indeed, bel, I as a lawyer could be severely censured if I broke a confidentiality agreement. I take such things seriously, as part of my professional obligations, and I do not think they should be trivialized.