On 3/12/07, CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM <David.CARTER-HITCHIN@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Andrew (once again), > Such disclaimers are inappropriate for mail sent to public lists. If > your company automatically adds something like this to outgoing mail, > and you can't convince them to stop, you might consider using a free > web-based e-mail account. I have at least two of these, and they're both banned here at work, hence my point about people not being able to interact with the list, who work in such organisations.
We're sorry, but thousands of people are not going to possibly take on liability and risk simply because your company believes it is a good idea to add disclaimers to mails. If this means you can't interact with people, maybe your company should reconsider it's stance on attempting to foist the liability and risk of using email onto others (which is effectively what these disclaimers do). If they won't, we're sorry, but we're doing this to avoid burdening thousands of people who can use the list without having to worry about these things. You can, of course, argue that these disclaimers mean nothing, and are worse than useless, but at least i'm not willing to spend the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost in court to prove it for each different one i receive. IAAL, Dan
