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Remember: lawyers are a cowardly and superstitious lot. To date,
ridicule has no effect on them, but it certainly helps maintain _us_.
This is actually on topic for this list, I think, because Kevin is
talking about an automatic communication we all receive, somebody
wrote it, and the topic is legal and financial consequences of reading
electronic correspondence -- specifically, this list.
Frankly, I find the auto-text a nuisance because if I forget to delete
it when I post, my post is rejected for including too much copied
text.
As a relatively new user to this list, I'd suggest that some of the
legal and other controls be eased a bit -- at least so this list is a
more relaxed environment than whatever we might each find on-the-job.
much the same way that a professional conference is also more relaxed.
On 7/22/05, mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com <mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
>
> G'day all,
>
> Is anybody on this list aware of any _real_ positive value
> of the notices that so many of us have pasted to the bottoms
> of our e-mails?
>
> I'm pretty sure that those blobs of self-important bumpf-harrumpf
> text have no force in law. Is there any non-urban-legend
> example where such a notice was instrumental in saving somebody
> or some company from material loss or embarrassment?
> Can we start a campaign to pound some sense into the
> heads of the corporate types who mandate this low-grade
> fertilizer?
>
> Kevin (whose every mail is blessed with a non-grammatical blob,
> automatically attached by our outgoing servers)
>
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I can answer any question.
"I don't know" is an answer.
"I don't know yet" is a better answer.
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