It's impossible to hold up in court because the third party can just forward the entire email with the exception of those disclaimer lines and whose to say that those lines where ever on the email that the third party intercepted? ASCII text can be erased as easily as it can be typed.
The bottom line is that if you want an email to be private, then encrypt it. If you want to ensure authenticity remains (disclaimer and all), then digitally sign it. If you just put some ASCII meaningless blurb at the bottom of your emails, it just makes you look like a person who acts before fully thinking things through. THAT is information that you would rather keep to yourself. =) Steve Bostedor -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Wei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: MS Exchange Can someone explain to me how a disclaimer at the bottom of an email can do anything, legally? Was there a case study where the disclaimer worked in the court of law??? Let's take a lawyer communication for example. We all know that there is privilege communication for lawyers and I fail to see how putting a disclaimer or some stupid legal blurb at the end of an email would stop the third party from disseminating information that he/she accidentally intercepts? Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Tupker, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:52 AM To: dave kleiman; [email protected] Subject: RE: MS Exchange I've been looking into this a little as well. The cheapest way to do it that I've found, if you are using exchange, is with an SMTP event sink. Many spam filters that I've seen have the ability to append text to emails as well. The only one that I can think of off hand is GFI Mail Essentials. http://gfi.com/mes/ I'm not sure if these would allow you to pull info from AD though. I hope this helps a little. Mike Tupker -----Original Message----- From: dave kleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MS Exchange Can anyone recommend a auto-signature application that adds signatures to outgoing email and those annoying legal disclaimers? It needs to black the user from making changes to the sig / disclaimer. Additionally, it needs to pull variables from AD (e.g. Organization, Title, Department) Most important, it needs to work! I have tried a couple and they crashed and burned, either the sig did not pull AD info properly or the user could override it. Respectfully, Dave Kleiman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- [This E-mail scanned for Spam and Viruses by http://www.innovationnetworks.ca] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
