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Unfortunately according to our company policy, which I have just read all mail sent from a company address must include a disclaimer, and the rules of the disclaimer are set out in point form. I have adhered to this keeping it as simple as possible.
If you want to see a nice overview over regular disclaimers and for which reasons they are nonsense please see:
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
You previously used in the disclaimer the sentence "WARNING: The information transmitted herewith is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed". What does that mean for posting to a public mailing list (at least public readable without subscription): who is the intended recipient? You fairly well see you can not legitimately limit that. Potentially the whole internet is the recipient and therefore: who is then prohibited to review, retransmission or else use your postings?
Don't be silly man or did you miss the mail where I said it was our companies standard mail signature.I have got to use it when sending mail from my box in any company related matter. If I knew it would upset you I would have changed it long ago.
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Chadley, welcome to the mailling list, don't let Dalloz ruffle your feathers. He believe he's a supreme being on this list, which is probably due to, his ever popular reply to any up2date question, http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
For future reference, a few other beefs he has include users hijacking threads and not searching the archives before posting. If you're not an experienced mailing list user unsubscribe from this list now! Either he's never worked on a helpline, or as a service rep, or currently does and has so much aggression built up that he uses this list as an outlet to unsuspecting new linux users.
In any case, welcome to the list.
Mike
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