Even thou I might agree with Tony, his full opinion in this matter may not necessarily be shared with me. I did not intended to ask them not include these disclaimer, I just wanted to protect my own rights of privacy. :) I do know that some employees are forced by the company board to add such disclaimers. Managers are know by engineers to make decision that an engineer might not agree with. //Anders DISCLAIMER: by receiving this e-mail you agree to annually, for a period of teen years, send 10% of your salary to the sender of this mail. On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:49, George Pitcher wrote: > Whilst I agree with the sentiments of Tony and B.A.T., some of us must as a > condition of using their employers' email facilities, add company > disclaimers to their messages. > > As long as they don't start to appear at the top of messages, I will > continue to ignore them. > > George in Oxford > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Devlin [mailto:tdevlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 18 May 2004 2:33 pm > > To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: Date Format in MySQL > > > > > > 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. 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