[Mimedefang] Disclaimers

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, January 08, 2007 5:16 PM +0000 Gordon Henderson 
<gordon at drogon.net> wrote:

> While disclaimers may well be useless, if you're in the UK then you might
> legally need that boilerplate afterall:
>
>    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/new_web_email_regulation/

The article references this email disclaimer advice from a UK law firm:

<http://www.out-law.com/page-5536>

Of particular note is this line:

> Such notices cost nothing to include ? so it's worth having them.

Other items of note:

> There is no legal authority on the effectiveness of these notices in
> email messages; but that is not to say that they should not be used,
> provided care is taken in drafting them.

> Common sense dictates that adding this notice to the foot of the email is
> too late: if the notice is read at all, it will be read after the
> message. The email system used by your organisation may or may not
> facilitate the automatic posting of a confidentiality notice above the
> text of all messages being sent externally. If it does, this is the best
> practice to follow.