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From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
Sent: 29 October 2004 07:29 pm
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Subject: Re: [GP-UK] Top Posting?
On Friday 29 October 2004 15:57, Laurie Miles wrote:
>> Adrian has told someone to stop Top Posting. Is this the accepted
>> protocol for replying to posts on GP-UK, or just Midge's preference?
>>... BTW, this sort
>> of reply can put off newbies to a mailing list
>Oh I wouldn't do it to a newbie, I'm ever so gentle.
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If I said I was a newbie would that make any difference? :-)
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>Always pleased to cooperate, but this is as confidential as NHS is likely
to be if we assume that a million people can all keep quiet.
>As to privilege, IANAL, but I suspect that by deliberately sending
something to an email list of an open and academic character the poster
loses any
>ability to claim privilege, as in asserting that copying or quoting it is
unlawful or a tort. Question of course is whether when one posts such
notices >automatically and without consideration of relevance or power to
such places they lose any power when added to messages which in the absence
of such
>notices would indeed be likely to require confidentiality and carry a duty.
Sorry about this garbage - this annoys me a lot more that top/bottom
posting, but as all my e-mail sent from the surgery goes through NHSnet
there is nothing I can do to stop it being added, AFAIK. Does anyone have
any idea to whom we could complain at NHSnet?
This message should only be added to an e-mail with the consent of the
sender, or else as Midge says it loses any force or impact, and will be
ignored. And I am not sure about whether such an addition has any value -
checks made by NVUG a while back with a lawyer about an additions to the
bottom of e-mails suggested at that time that they did not have any legal
standing at all. Does anyone have a more recent take on this?
Laurie Miles
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