It is obvious, but I think you're asking the wrong question.
The question should be if you've been managing perfectly well sending
business letters without disclaimers, why add them to emails?
The advice we normally give to people is to make the email ones the
same as their letters.
Solicitors have generally added disclaimers about legal privilege to
letters and follow suit on the mails; apart from that few people add
them to business letters, so why add them to emails?
There's an interesting article about the issues at
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:44:24PM +0100, Gordon Wanless wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have been asked why we don't have a disclaimer on our business
> letters like we have for our business e-mails and I am struggling to
> come up with a good answer.
>
> It just seems obvious to me that you don't need one for a business
> letter, but I can't articulate why. I guess my thinking is that I
> understand there is a legal duty for a letter to be delivered to its
> addressed destination, whereas there isn't for an e-mail.
>
> Anyone else feel the same and if so, can you say why?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gordon.
>
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