Unfortunately, many corporate email systems, including at a former employer of mine, automatically add these to every outgoing email, and individual employees have no control over it nor any way to change the corporate policy. Which is one of the reasons why I use non-work email for my IETF work. Cheers, Andy On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:36 AM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>It is a standard footer attached automatically by many attorney's >>email systems to all outgoing mail. > > Many non-attorneys' mail, too, as in this case. > > Yes, it's silly: as far as I can tell, confidentiality claims like > this are entirely unenforcable in the US except in a few arcane > situations that only apply to messages from one attorney to another. > It's just another example of pseudo-legal nonsense running amok. > > But I have often been sorely tempted to return messages like this with > boilerplate of my own explaining that since I cannot accept the > sender's alleged restrictions, the message has been returned unread, > and since I have no way to evaluate the sender's status relative to > the party applying the notice, disclaimers in a message saying to > ignore the boilerplate won't help. > > R's, > John > > >>>> From: "Andrew Allen" <aallen@xxxxxxx> >>>> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> >>>> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:11 PM >>>> Subject: Regarding RIM's recent IPR disclosures >>> ... >>>> This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential >>>> information, privileged material (including material protected by the >>>> solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public >>>> information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended >>>> recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, >>>> please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information >>>> from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction >>>> of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and >>>> may be unlawful. >>> ... >>> >>> This is just plain silly. Or is it willful ignorance of the "Note Well" terms? > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf