[Mimedefang] OT: Ed Foster's GripeLine blog on disclaimers

[WBrown at e1b.org]

Fun reading on disclaimers.  My favorite part is:

But what if we all treated e-mail messages exactly the way the dumb 
disclaimers tell us to? One reader gave an example from his own company. 
"In our recent Sarbanes-Oxley process we were dealing with a company who 
attached this phrase to every e-mail: 'Any disclosure, copying, or 
distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is 
strictly prohibited.' So when I received an e-mail asking me to go to a 
meeting, I didn't go. And when I received an e-mail saying 'Please call 
me.' I didn't call. That would have been taking an action based on the 
e-mail. The employee who had been sending me the e-mails was quite taken 
aback when I explained that. Normally I would have ignored such nonsense, 
but since this was for Sarbanes-Oxley, I figured I had to take the process 
seriously." 

Enjoy it at http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/9/13/112615/432

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