[TriLUG] [OT] E-mail privacy disclaimers

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 03:10:09 pm Michael Peters wrote:
> Douglas R. Taber wrote:
> > As a common sense approach, I don't think you put a privacy disclaimer
> > on something transmitted in plain text any more than you can put
> > "confidential" on a billboard.
>
> Especially when said disclaimer is at the bottom of the email and you would
> have read all of the "private" information before ever reaching the
> disclaimer.

I think the purpose is so that if the email is accidentally sent to the wrong 
person, that person knows it's not his property to redistribute or put on the 
Internet.

SteveT

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