On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:45:44AM -0000, John Levine wrote: > It's clueless cargo cult lawyering. +1, and see also: http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#legalistic which reads in part: "First, such boilerplate contains useless adhesions, meaning the explicit and implied threats they make are particularly annoying. If you send something via email, the recipients (are you sure you aren't sending to a mailing list?) and anyone else who sees your clear text postcard in transit can undetectably and with full deniability do whatever they want with the information written on it in plain view. Even casual users of email know email is not a secure communications medium. Thus the threats in typical bogus legalistic boilerplate are naught but an attempt at highly improper intimidation. Demands made in this manner will be regarded as evidence of a hostile attitude on your part by a significant portion of recipients. The threats will negatively affect how your recipients perceive the other ideas in your message. Second, in the case of mailing lists (are you sure the address to which you sent isn't one?) or USENET posts, falsely claiming a message is "confidential and privileged" is simply too stupid for words." ---rsk _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf