Line Between Eavesdropping & Stalking

To The Editor: Is it eavesdropping when you overhear something particularly intimate (â??Urban Eavesdropping, Dec. 23)? It might feel like it is, yet it"s really accidental. However, if you decide to follow a pair of complete strangers into a store where you have no business, solely for the purpose of listening to the story the woman is telling about her messy divorce, then you have crossed the line into stalker territory (a conversation stalker!). A conversation stalker may not be as bad as the regular kind of stalker, but there are definitely acceptable and unacceptable forms of urban eavesdropping. Alina Schaecher