From: James S. <jam...@op...> - 2007-02-24 20:20:39
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On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:19 +0000, Keith Marshall wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2007 20:04, James Steward wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:30 +0100, mar...@ma... wrote: > > > This message is not legally binding upon our company! This > > > communication is confidential and is intended solely for the > > > addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), his/her > > > assistant, or authorized recipient, any form of disclosure, > > > reproduction, distribution or any use of this communication or the > > > information in it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. In > > > this case, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the > > > e-mail. Electronic communication via the Internet by e-mail may be > > > manipulated and/or read by third parties, thus we exclude any > > > liability whatsoever for this e-mail. > > > > Unfortunately your message is now available to all on the internet. > > So the bit above about confidentiality is, well ... disturbing. > > In fact, since he's posted his message to a public mailing list, it is > utterly meaningless, and quite unenforceable. > > > On other mailing lists such statements would get you banned. > > Unfortunately, some corporations insist on adding this sort of nonsense > automatically, to every message sent through their mail servers, > regardless of destination. While it is utterly ludicrous to attach > this sort of verbiage to any message sent to a public mailing list, and > I would encourage all subscribers to suppress such addenda, if it is in > their power to do so, I will not take the draconian action of banning > those who find it impossible to avoid this sort of corporate stupidity. You are most kind. On a particular linux related list I've seen it suggested that folk with these sorts of unavoidable corporate added nonsense addenda use a gmail account or similar to circumvent their corporate mail servers interference. I don't mean to cause anyone stress btw. I thought this might be a useful suggestion. Regards, James. |