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Just out of curiosity. Has anybody managed to sue anybody based on these disclaimers and actually *won*?
The way I look at them:
1) If I got the message, I am intended recipient. I have no telepatic skills, and I can't tell what was going in sender's head and who he intended to receive the message. I could have been in Bcc, I could have been part of an alias somewhere that sender knew about, or it could have came from mailing list that sender knew I'm subscribed to (and those are just some of the possibilities).
2) If I see the message, and there is no non-disclosure agreement that I actually signed, I can do with the information what I please. That is way one needs to sign them before being allow access to information.
3) If somebody who did signed non-disclosure agreement forwarded it to me, but I haven't signed non-disclosure neither with original sender or forwarder, I can again do with it whatever I want. The original sender can sue the forwarder for braking non-disclosure, but he can't do anything to me. The original sender can sue forwarder even if the email does not contain the above disclaimer (since there is written *and* signed legal document).
4) Lastly, even if I get sued, I can always argue the information was passed to me intentionally by the sender, in order to attempt to prevent me to use information that I would found out on my own anyhow. And there's no way for suer to prove otherwise. Would make suer look very childish infront of the court (and public, and stock holders).
So (based on 1, 2, 3, and 4), my question is. Are those legal disclaimers just evil way for legal guys to get even on us system admins by vasting disk space and network bandwith? And of course, forcing us to have non-cool signatures.
BTW, to get back onto technical side, has anybody though of writing plugin for mailing list servers to automatically strip signatures that look as legal disclaimers? Would be cool ;-)
P.S.
Starting as a new thread, to avoid poluting original thread with this totaly unrelated junk.
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
