These disclaimers seem to becoming a popular thing used by lawyers or
legal departments in larger corporations. I first saw this a year or
2 ago in mails sent by a friend of mine who is a lawyer. I just
recently had to have some of my team members start using a similar
disclaimer in their emails to one of our vendors after I talked to our
legal team about sending proprietary info outside of the company.
It's just meant to cover your butt and probably doesn't cover a number
of situations. If the legal department finds out that the mail is
being sent internationally, and/or through a list-server, then I have
a feeling that the disclaimer is going to get longer-and-longer to
cover every single possible situation. (eg: a 1 sentence email
followed by a 1 megabyte disclaimer). Though that wouldn't surprise
me. Such is life in the US.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:46:43AM +0100, Steve Mace wrote:
> So.... the fact that you (in this example) accidentally send an email to the
> wrong address means that I'm several dollars out of pocket :-(
>
> Does this sort of disclaimer actually have any legal bearing at all if it means
> that the recipient must pay for your (in this example) mistakes? If someone
> sends you a postal letter, which has your address on the front but it's actually
> intended for someone else do you legally have to a) phone up the sender and
> then b) burn the letter? I think not!
>
> Also... does it have any cross-border legality e.g. US to UK? In fact,
> presumably the LRO list server has already broken the law (if it is illegal of
> course - debatable) by duplicating the message several hundred times and
> then sending it on.
>
> Just curious... Just asking questions.... Just going to put the kettle on.. :-)
>
> On 10 Apr 2001, at 9:09, SJH wrote:
>
> > No.
>
> Steve
>
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