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Bonnie Granat [mailto:bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com] upbraided me with:
> You could probably find out if the large corporations (and
> sometimes small)
> that use them have successfully terminated employees who
> violated e-mail
> policy and won wrongful termination lawsuits brought by those
> employees.
If the corporate sharks were waving pieces of paper
at such a lawsuit, they'd find it much more effective
to wave the policy that they require all employees to sign.
The bumpf at the bottom of our outgoing mail is directed
at recipients and wants them to do something.
> What's at the bottom of YOUR mail, Kevin, is a simple request.
It's simple, surely. But it is unnecessary clutter, it is
redundant (when was the last time that you included such
stuff in a paper snail-mail letter?), and in my case, it is
grammatically incorrect, because it asks the recipient to
"notify us ... by... deleting...".
You can't notify anybody by deleting.
So, among those who know proper English, the company is
embarrassing itself perpetually. (Not that I think anybody
actually reads the bumpf, but it's the principle of the thing.)
Rather than just ask the head legal beagle to put a
judicious comma and a "then" in the right place, I thought
I'd seek ammo to have the silly thing abolished entirely.
Kevin
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