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[gravitas]

OK....I'm on a bit of a business kick tonight

I'm seeing an increasing number of people include a confidentiality warning* with their emails and am wondering if they actually accomplish anything other then taking up valuable screen space.

*for those of you who haven't seen this sort of nonsense it normally reads something like:
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.

Granted post enron, worldcom, nortel world corporations are more careful in how they make information public (fucking SOX legislation) but does that warning mean anything?

I haven't seen anything from our legal dept (granted I normally don't go looking for them since the uptight fuckers only cause me grief) but all sorts of people in the company have one flavor or another of that message as part of their greeting.

Anything Bueller?


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[hitrack]

1- if the emails intended for you, you have nothing to worry about

2- if it aint and you still got it, then some stupid fukk is forwarding e-mails he shouldn't

3- IMO the stupid fukk who wrote that for his/her sig she be introduced to something called email encryption.

 

[FuZzYknUckLeS]

Its called the fucking "lemming syndrome", also known as "monkey see monkey do" syndrome.

Some jackass gets that in an email that someone sent to him, then decides to add it to his shit to make it appear more formal, is usually the case.
I work with some of them myself. When I ask them why they added it, they usually give the same reply.
"I dunno. Seemed like a good idea."

 

[50 Mile Radius]

Ya, I've seen a lot of that lately.....

ours is horrible.....


it's all about CYA

 

[vancouverman]

"email encryption"

how does one do that?
Is it a separate software or does yahoo or hotmail offer it as a freebee?

wow .. this is subject for long discussion .....

start with some reading ....

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=2173,00.asp

 

[carefulone]

If you have a legal right to keep something confidential, you need to assert that right.

Let's say the e-mail attached to the signature contained some confidential sales forcasts, but you accidentally sent it to the sales rep for your competitor who you keep running into at the trade conventions you both frequent. If it is important enough, you could sue to restrain him or her from using the information, but you would have to prove that the information was confidential and was meant to be confidential and wasn't meant to be shared with him or her. The signature helps with that last part.