-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/2011 09:49 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 13/Jul/11 18:38, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >> On 07/13/2011 06:50 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: >>> >>> Barry, I think that we should put a filter on the ietf.org that bounces >>> all messages with confidentiality notices. >> >> Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be standardized with >> their own MIME type to make automatic processing easier so receivers of this >> kind of notice (mailing-list or other) can respect the wishes of the sender. > > +1, I am quite concerned by those unneeded clots of legal wisdom > infesting more and more places. Couldn't they be concise, at least? > A confidentiality notice shouldn't need to thoroughly explain the > legal meaning of the term "confidential"... Rather than formulate the > law so as to leverage the Internet, legal systems at times seem to be > hindering it with questionable obligations. I do not think that size is really the issue. It can even make things worse - I saw some attempts (from Cisco people I think) to use a link instead of a complete notice, but now I have to click on the link and read the web page, which takes more time than reading an embedded text. Using a specific MIME type for the notice text itself permits to not display it if my mailer is configured this way. If in addition we have an Header field that describes the restrictions detailed in the disclaimer text, then we can 1) configure IETF mailing-lists to bounce emails that clash with IETF's Note Well and 2) configure our individual mailer to bounce emails with a confidentiality notice but that are not sent specifically to us. - -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Personal email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Professional email: petithug@xxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAk4d0f4ACgkQ9RoMZyVa61eGkQCfXPhQ/yTDEDNiQRbff/eYE+y/ QScAmNGXVlGBQBm9QVx3IegUTo9QJrU= =X41v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf