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h.pfizer.com> on Fri, 21 Jan 2000, [log in to unmask]
writes
>I have just attended an in-house
>email course, where the importance of the legal notice (see bottom of this
>email) was impressed upon us - all sorts of fire and damnation is threatened
>if we fail to make sure it is included in all our emails
...
>I was interested in how this applied when sending commands to listservs in
>an email message; some systems require you to strip out non-command text.
I would have thought that a command sent to a program was not really an
"email" for this purpose. Although sent by email software, it is not
intended to be read by a human. If you take it to the extreme, if you
were interacting with an on-line system, you could not attach a legal
notice to each command.
(If you're worrying about such things, by the way, I believe that
"listserv" is a registered trade mark belonging to L-Soft International
Inc., <http://www.lsoft.com> and should not be used in the generic way
you have done.)
It also sounds odd to say that "Unless expressly stated otherwise, this
message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the
addressee(s) only" when sending to a mailing list to which anyone can
subscribe or view the archives. It seems even more unnecessary to attach
such statements to messages sent to Usenet newsgroups as some people do
- rather like publishing a letter in a newspaper and adding "this is
confidential".
I agree, though, that it is useful for all contributions to have an
adequate signature showing where they have come from and who is
responsible for the content.
Leonard Will
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Willpower Information (Partners: Dr Leonard D Will, Sheena E Will)
Information Management Consultants Tel: +44 (0)20 8372 0092
27 Calshot Way, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 7BQ, UK. Fax: +44 (0)20 8372 0094
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