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Re: he.net down/slow?
From: James Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:05:37 -0600
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Martin Hannigan <martin () theicelandguy com> wrote: >..
is reasonable to inject it and everyone who can ignore it should simply ignore it.
"confidentiality notices" are non-innocuous for recipients who pay per kilobyte for data service, or who are frustrated by time wasted by reading the long sig. But they are such a popular fad, that it's pointless to debate their real merits, or whether a sender 'should' include a notice. Spam filter your inbox on /CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE.*intended recipient.*destroy.*copies/si and be done with it. The individual sender normally has no control over the matter, so their only two choices are: (a) Post with the notice, or (b) Don't post at all. There's little point in asking for (c), where the sender usually doesn't have the option. Organizations with "corporate policy" to use a standard e-mail sig on all messages are probably blind to whether the notice is of any effect, the corp. expensive lawyers used billable time to draft the notice, so it could probably be useful, going forward: future cost = ZERO, future possible benefit/protections = large... Unless including the notice results in important messages getting bounced to sender as rejected, don't count on the sender's org to change policies, or make exceptions for list mail, even based on a NANOG discussion.... -- -J
Current thread:
- Re: he.net down/slow?, (continued)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Fearghas McKay (Jan 07)
- RE: he.net down/slow? Brian Johnson (Jan 07)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 07)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Dave Martin (Jan 08)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Martin Hannigan (Jan 09)
- Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow? John Levine (Jan 09)
- Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow? Martin Hannigan (Jan 09)
- Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow? John R. Levine (Jan 09)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Fearghas McKay (Jan 07)
- Re: he.net down/slow? joel jaeggli (Jan 09)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Martin Hannigan (Jan 09)
- Re: he.net down/slow? James Hess (Jan 09)
- Re: he.net down/slow? goemon (Jan 09)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Joe Greco (Jan 10)
- Re: he.net down/slow? JC Dill (Jan 10)
- Re: he.net down/slow? William Herrin (Jan 09)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Joe Greco (Jan 10)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 10)
- Re: he.net down/slow? Joe Greco (Jan 10)
- RE: he.net down/slow? Michael J. Hartwick (Jan 11)
- Re: he.net down/slow? JC Dill (Jan 11)
- Re: he.net down/slow? William Herrin (Jan 11)