Re: Mail sends to all addresses except one (disclaimer)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kyle Wheeler
Sent: 07 May 2008 11:45 PM
> The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and legally
> privileged and is intended solely for the addressee and to others
> who have the authority to receive it. Access to this e-mail by
> anyone else is unauthorized and as such, any disclosure, copying,
> distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on it is
> unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify
> the sender immediately.
>
> The views expressed in this e-mail are the views of the individual
> sender and should in no way be construed as the views of the
> Company.
>
> The Company is not liable to ensure that outgoing e-mails are
virus-free.
>
> The Company is not liable, should information or data, for whatever
> reason, be corrupted or fail to reach its intended addressee.
>
> The Company is not liable for any loss or damage of whatsoever
> nature and howsoever arising resulting from the opening or the use
> of the information in this e-mail, including its attachments and
> links.
>
> The sender of this e-mail is subject to and bound by the terms and
> conditions of Company's Electronic Communications Usage Policy.
Is this really necessary?
Your warning here is contradictory: it tells me that if I am not
authorized I cannot take any action based on the content of the email,
and yet the disclaimer is itself part of the content of the email, so
any action I take based on the disclaimer (such as notifying the
sender) would be violating the explicit instructions of the
disclaimer. Thus, legally, your disclaimer cannot be taken at
face-value; it is a logical impossibility.
For another thing, it's presuming to place upon me some sort of
contractual obligation, even though I haven't agreed to any contract.
It is widely recognized in most contract law that you cannot be bound
by a contract you did not agree to, so at best your disclaimer is
bossing me around with no basis for doing so. If I take your email and
give it to *ALL* the wrong people (whoever they are), neither you nor
your company can do anything about it.
Which reminds me, this mailing list is publicly archived in many
places, and as such is available to the general public. This would
appear to be a direct violation of your disclaimer, and as such, the
disclaimer is silly.
That, and it's absurdly long.
[Dirk]
Apologies for the disclaimer. Currently all my mail comes from my work
address, which goes through an exchange server which attaches the
disclaimer (I have no control over this). And our internet is so slow
it is frustrating to get an external address that I can control better.
Dirk
*** Disclaimer ***
The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and legally privileged
and is intended solely for the addressee and to others who have the authority
to receive it. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorized and as
such, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted in
reliance on it is unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
notify the sender immediately.
The views expressed in this e-mail are the views of the individual sender and
should in no way be construed as the views of the Company.
The Company is not liable to ensure that outgoing e-mails are virus-free.
The Company is not liable, should information or data, for whatever reason, be
corrupted or fail to reach its intended addressee.
The Company is not liable for any loss or damage of whatsoever nature and
howsoever arising resulting from the opening or the use of the information in
this e-mail, including its attachments and links.
The sender of this e-mail is subject to and bound by the terms and conditions
of Company+IBk-s Electronic Communications Usage Policy.