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I just got an email from a friend, containing two paragraphs of message, and four paragraphs of signature and legal disclaimer. I calculated 65% overhead in this particular message. Are you as annoyed as I am with those ever-growing legal disclaimers many companies append to each and every message, many multiple times if a message ping-pongs back and forth a few times? Is legal disclaimer language appended to email messages actually recognized by any judge in the world, or is it just a plain and simple waste of space? Bernd
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I just got an email from a friend, containing two paragraphs of message, and four paragraphs of signature and legal disclaimer. I calculated 65% overhead in this particular message. Are you as annoyed as I am with those ever-growing legal disclaimers many companies append to each and every message, many multiple times if a message ping-pongs back and forth a few times? Is legal disclaimer language appended to email messages actually recognized by any judge in the world, or is it just a plain and simple waste of space? Bernd
Certainly beats the 65% profit loss from money-mongers suing over unteathered messages with no disclaimers. :) Not that I fully agree with it, but I do understand it. I prefer when the disclaimer is a link to the actual disclaimer, perhaps with a little blurb in the email itself. It's just a way for companies to cover their butts. How these types of cases go (don't remember any regarding email disclaimers, though) is really up or down depending on what the case is about and how good your laywers are (the made-for-TV movie "Boa vs. Python" on Sci-Fi comes to mind). They're talked about quit frequently on slashdot (/.)[^].
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I just got an email from a friend, containing two paragraphs of message, and four paragraphs of signature and legal disclaimer. I calculated 65% overhead in this particular message. Are you as annoyed as I am with those ever-growing legal disclaimers many companies append to each and every message, many multiple times if a message ping-pongs back and forth a few times? Is legal disclaimer language appended to email messages actually recognized by any judge in the world, or is it just a plain and simple waste of space? Bernd
We don’t know how to use the security and encryption features of our e-mail server. We are so confuse that we cannot even assure that this e-mail arrived at the proper person. So, if you received this e-mail because of our incompetence, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Notice that this is being written on the most scary legalese way, so no one notices how much incompetent we are. It recalls me the old joke: ” Hi, I’m the Visual Basic virus. Since I was coded by a newbie VB programmer, I don’t have the automatic spreading neither the file destruction part. So, please send this e-mail to your entire contact list and delete all files on your computer. Thanks. ” Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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We don’t know how to use the security and encryption features of our e-mail server. We are so confuse that we cannot even assure that this e-mail arrived at the proper person. So, if you received this e-mail because of our incompetence, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Notice that this is being written on the most scary legalese way, so no one notices how much incompetent we are. It recalls me the old joke: ” Hi, I’m the Visual Basic virus. Since I was coded by a newbie VB programmer, I don’t have the automatic spreading neither the file destruction part. So, please send this e-mail to your entire contact list and delete all files on your computer. Thanks. ” Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
Daniel Turini wrote: Notice that this is being written on the most scary legalese way, so no one notices how much incompetent we are. :-D Jeremy Falcon
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I just got an email from a friend, containing two paragraphs of message, and four paragraphs of signature and legal disclaimer. I calculated 65% overhead in this particular message. Are you as annoyed as I am with those ever-growing legal disclaimers many companies append to each and every message, many multiple times if a message ping-pongs back and forth a few times? Is legal disclaimer language appended to email messages actually recognized by any judge in the world, or is it just a plain and simple waste of space? Bernd
It is worst when attachment is included in the ping-pongs. :doh: //Start of joke Never comment ur code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand !!! //End of joke
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We don’t know how to use the security and encryption features of our e-mail server. We are so confuse that we cannot even assure that this e-mail arrived at the proper person. So, if you received this e-mail because of our incompetence, please delete it and notify us as soon as possible. Notice that this is being written on the most scary legalese way, so no one notices how much incompetent we are. It recalls me the old joke: ” Hi, I’m the Visual Basic virus. Since I was coded by a newbie VB programmer, I don’t have the automatic spreading neither the file destruction part. So, please send this e-mail to your entire contact list and delete all files on your computer. Thanks. ” Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh: