Disclaimers are not legally binding in email, so I have no idea why people feel the need to include them. The reason why disclaimers are not legally binding in email is because the recipient has no way to read the disclaimer and reject the email prior to reading the message, it would be like forcing them to agree to anything you write in email just because they "read" that email. The disclaimer must precept the message and must allow for the recipient to be able to reject the disclaimer and the message without risk of reading the intended message which is inferred by the disclaimer. Although it can be argued how software installs before displaying a disclaimer but the sad truth is that if anyone wanted to claim no fault acceptance of the disclaimer, they could. Which is why new online games now require you to accept their disclaimers and ToS everytime you play and it precepts the ability to actually play the game, If you disagree to either it exits the program, which is the way the disclaimer laws were written. Now lets go even further and just make a logical statement, How can you control whether the intended user has recieved the email and if not, what the non-intended user does with that information? Exactly you can't and fault of misdirected email fails squarly on the shoulders of the sender, not the recipient. I can see that Svensson, just as I am, is tired of recieving this spam at the end of messages by these people. Soon they have to realize that their disclaimers hold no water and no legal protection. Tony DISCLAIMER: By reading this email you agree that "All Your Base R Belong To Me". **Just some humor and hopefully some legal insight on disclaimers** -----Original Message----- From: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) [mailto:B.A.T.Svensson@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:22 AM To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Date Format in MySQL DISCLAIMER: By sending any electronically information to Mr. B.A.T. Svensson' mailbox the sender agrees that, regardless content, attachments, intended recipient, disclaimers, human error, stupidity, plain ignorance or any other legal claims or matter, that B.A.T. Svensson is to be consider the exclusive owner of any electronically information sent to him. Under no circumstance can the sender claim ownership or influence of the actions Mr. Svensson may or may not take about the information. Mr.Svensson have received. The information in this e-mail or attachments thereto is > > _________________________________________________ > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail contains information some or all of which may be > legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing > or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author > by replying to this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient you must > not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely on this e-mail. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Disclaimer > This e-mail transmission contains confidential information, > which is the property of the sender. > The information in this e-mail or attachments thereto is > intended for the attention and use only of the addressee. > Should you have received this e-mail in error, please delete > and destroy it and any attachments thereto immediately. > Under no circumstances will the Cape Technikon or the sender > of this e-mail be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, > special or other consequential damages for any use of this e-mail. > For the detailed e-mail disclaimer please refer to > http://www.ctech.ac.za/polic or call +27 (0)21 460 3911 -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
