Date: 23 Nov 2009 10:54:09 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911231045140.12752@xxxxxxxxxx>
| You must know different CEOs and lawyers than I do. The CEO's secretary
| will send it to the lawyer, and the lawyer will say "yes, that's what I
| told them to do",
You mean, to give away corporate information to outsiders? You know
laywers who recommend that - weird... That's what my message said happened
- note there is no complaint at all about the boilerplate, that's pointless,
just a statement that I am not bound by it (there is no agreement between me
and them) , and that I intend to take full advantage of the information they
sent me - regardless of their admonitions that I must not.
I don't, and won't, tell them what the information was - that's (partly)
why the comment about "respecting copyright" was there - the author of the
message owns its copyright, even when they have sent it to you, you cannot
generally make copies without permission. That means I cannot send them
their message back again, or not until they have proved to me that they are
the copyright owner of the message, which is probably not so easy to do when
they have no idea what the message was (or who sent it)....
| under the well-known principle that a lawyer will always
| recommend any measure, no matter how expensive, to defend against any
| risk, no matter how trivial.*
Believe me, I fully understand both how that happens, and even why.
kre
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