On 9/9/2015 10:23, Alan Buxey wrote:
It's just text at the bottom of your email.
1 often a very large amount of text - in this case the legalese was something like 10x longer than the comment! 2 its pointless. Its not enforceable and doesn't mean anything.
Shall i put a chapter of war and peace at the end of my emails? You could just ignore it..... ;)
I have been thinking that Lipsum Ipsum would be more in keeping with the spirit of uselessness here. -- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
Postel's Law seems relevant to this issue. Sorry for contributing to the noise.
"Email Disclaimers: Legal Effect in American Courts" - http://www.rhlaw.com/blog/legal-effect-of-boilerplate-email-disclaimers/ "Automatic e-mail footers are not just annoying. They are legally useless" - http://www.economist.com/node/18529895
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Landon Stewart <landonstewart@gmail.com> wrote:
"Email Disclaimers: Legal Effect in American Courts" - http://www.rhlaw.com/blog/legal-effect-of-boilerplate-email-disclaimers/
"Automatic e-mail footers are not just annoying. They are legally useless" - http://www.economist.com/node/18529895
I don't have a handy reference, but as I understand it there's a legal problem with confidentiality boilerplate showing up on a mailing list: it demonstrates that the sender "doesn't mean it." A defendant in a case involving some other email can claim that the words mean nothing because the company's emails always say that even when they're obviously broadcast to the public in general. The defendant can claim a good faith belief that they didn't mean it this time either. And the court will agree. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
"Email Disclaimers: Legal Effect in American Courts" - http://www.rhlaw.com/blog/legal-effect-of-boilerplate-email-disclaimers/
Dark grey text on a black background is unreadable. Plonk goes the website.
I see black on white... On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
"Email Disclaimers: Legal Effect in American Courts" - http://www.rhlaw.com/blog/legal-effect-of-boilerplate-email-disclaimers/
Dark grey text on a black background is unreadable. Plonk goes the website.
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