Although it is outside of the scope of your example, CAN-SPAM has some legal requirements for disclaimers on email marketing. I believe they include the physical address of the business, an opt-out mechanism for the recipient, and some sort of identification of the intent of the message. CAN-SPAM only applies to non-existing business relationships, though. There are other obvious benefits of using disclaimers. Some have already been presented like placing sender information into the message automatically (possibly from active directory). Some businesses use disclaimers for sharing news, marketing, or educational messages (ex. Confidential information - such as account numbers or Social Security numbers - should not be included in email messages). Jason
-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Wei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:37 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Jason Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizens Bank Minnesota Member FDIC Equal Housing Lender Bank Locations and Contact information may also be found at http://www.citizensmn.com/contact.htm. Citizens Bank Minnesota, 105 North Minnesota Street, New Ulm, MN 56073. Branches are located in New Ulm, Lakeville, Lafayette, and La Salle, MN. 800-549-0194 (toll-free), 507-354-3165 (direct), 507-359-1313 (Fax). Notices: Confidential information - such as account numbers or Social Security numbers - should not be included in email messages. This message may contain promotional materials. If you do not wish to receive email messages from the sender, please send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message, please specify which email address you wish to protect and place the words "DO NOT EMAIL" in the subject of the message. This message is intended only for the intended recipient. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and delete this message and any attachments. Dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
