Re: How can I set up a default disclaimer on the end of all emails

[Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt computer org>]

John Summerfield <summer@os2.ami.com.au> writes:

> > Do the net a favor and skip it!  The RH lists are becoming infested with 
> > legal notices at the end of public posts.  To paraphrase John Summerfield,  
> > I'll do whatever I damned well please with mail delivered to me.  Really, 
> 
> Even if you have legal advice that they are legally effective (and I 
> can't imagine that might be so as the email's received and read before 
> the disclaimer's seen), enforcing it might be difficult.

There are disclaimers and there are disclaimers. Suppose a company is
decent enough to let employees use office email for personal purposes,
within reason. It also recognizes that being subscribed to RH mailing
lists is beneficial to the employees professionally. On the other
hand, it wants to emphasize that the employee does not speak for the 
company in his personal emails. What's wrong with a one-line
disclaimer to that effect? It's the 100-line ones that are
ridiculous.

I keep wondering why companies don't put a one-liner with a URL with
the full legal disclaimer in email. That would be acceptable to me.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
"If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet."