Re: Top Posting and company disclaimer

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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:03:48 -0500, Leonard Isham
<leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip]
> >   You are correct about the disclaimer:  I have tried numerous times to
> > have my email admin remove the disclaimer under certain circumstances,
> > such as posting to lists, but without success.  It seems that the
> > combination of our Spam filter and Exchange server do not allow the
> > selective application of the signature, its all or nothing, an nothing
> > is not acceptable in our litigious society and our in-house counsel.  If
> > the recipient is outside of our domain, the sig is appended regardless.
> > So that limits my choice to either NOT using the list as a resource at
> > work (which I need), or using my home account for the list, which I
> > would rather not do as it is not a flexible or available.  Being mostly
> > a lurker, you don't hear from me very often.
> >
> >  As for the signature not making sense; It makes perfect sense from the
> > perspective of a lawyer specializing in intellectual property,
> > electronic communication, and patents.  As for regular human beings? You
> > decide.
> 
> For everyone using work e-mail accounts consider the following:
> 
> If you are posting about a company issue anyone can gather information
> about your company and possibly use it against your company.
> 
> Posting from an non-work account makes it more difficult to track who
> you work for and decreases the potential that any information that is
> inadverrtantly disclosed is not used against your company.
> 
> --
> Leonard Isham, CISSP
> Ostendo non ostento.
> 

The fedora-list subscription page should contain a great big notice
that the list contents are not shielded from public viewing. 
Regardless of disclaimer(s) restricting access, dissemination, etc.
when one posts to this list one posts to a public forum.


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