> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:28 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:20:01 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic > > <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Lelegard Thierry wrote: > > > > This message and any attachments (the "message") is > intended solely for the > > > > addressees and is confidential. If you receive this > message in error, please > > > > delete it and immediately notify the sender. > > > > Any use not in accordance with its purpose, any > dissemination or disclosure, > > > > either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. > > > > The E-Mail transmission can not guarantee the integrity > of this message. > > > > NAGRA FRANCE will not therefore be liable for the > message if modified. > > > > > > Yes, email "legal" disclaimers are usually pretty stupid and > > mostly non-legally binding. You might want to see > > > > http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ > > > > I suppose there could be some legitimate ones, perhaps for > > Government stuff. But for the most part they are nothing more > > than an expression of some lawyer trying to show how powerful > > he is without regarding any common sense. > ---- > There are only 2 ways that disclaimers are put at the bottom > of an email > message. > > 1 - Either the end user has it put in as his signature - > whereby he can > have another signature for mail lists without this disclaimer and is > rude for not doing so to mailing lists > or > 2 - The 'company mail server' appends the signature to each outgoing > mail (often claimed by the transgressors) which constitutes an > adulteration of the original message and thus is of suspect validity > anyway. > > In reality, regardless of how stupid, how worthless, how ineffective, > how unsupportable it may be in litigation, they will endure and I have > little power to stop them so I will waste no more time ranting about > them. Being the one whose message provoked this flame, I confirm that item 2 is the right one: One company mail server appends this useless disclaimer to *all* outgoing messages. You should see it again in this message, although I do not see it while typing this message. I am not the systeme administrator and I cannot do anything about that. Let me note that my message was a reply to a question in this list, providing information to someone who requested it. In short, if I get flamed about some stupid disclaimer that I did not want anyway when I try to help someone, maybe the solution is to stop trying to help. So please, stay focus on the message, not on the envelope. -Thierry
