Many people write things such as:
>This message is for the named person's use only.
[etc]
For several views on why this is bad manners as well as futile (the
first is specifically UK- and JISC-community centric), including many
examples on the genre:
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#legalistic
http://attrition.org/security/rants/z/disclaimers.html
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