[geeks] Email Disclaimers

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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Edward Mitchell <ed at arxsystems.net> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> On 07/06/11 17:00, RichT (list addr) wrote:
>>>>> This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)
and
>>>>> may contain confidential and privileged information. B Any unauthorized
>>>>> review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. B If you are not
>>>>> the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply E-mail and
>>>>> destroy all copies of the original message.
>>>>
>>>> *hahahahaha*
>>>
>>>
>>> Do messages like this have any legal backup at all?
>>> Sounds to me like a load of mumbo jumbo.
>>
>> Not one damn thing. B They're not worth the paper they're printed on.
>> But it makes control-freak corporate lawyers feel like they're in
>> control of something.
>
> That's not necessarily true or accurate. B You might want to do a little
> research on both the legal aspects of email disclaimers and the attorney
> ethics implications of email disclaimers. B Something as simple as *where*
in
> the message the disclaimer appears can potentially change the calculus.

Humm also what kind of cross border functionality would such Disclaimers
have...
e.g I live in the UK and it looked like that came from the USA.

--
Ritchie
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