On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:51:40AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > victor wrote: > > > > please remove these sort of footers when you send emails to a public > > > > mailing list ;-) > > > > > > The footer is auto-inserted by the company email system. I am sorry > > > about it. > > > > Talk to your company about how it is impossible for you to contribute > > to an open source project on a public mailing list while claiming > > that everything you send is confidential. > > If you read the confidentiality notice, you'll see that it merely says > that the contents of the email _may_ be confidential. Also, it warns > people who _aren't_ the intended addressees -- but if the message was > sent to a public email list then obviously there are no such people. > > So I don't see any problem. The email footer is in direct contradiction to the "signed-off-by:" line in a patch (if it is in the patch), so what are we supposed to assume is correct? Because of that, I usually can not accept patches with that in it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html