On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 01:21 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:33, Creamer, Mark wrote: > > > This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be > > > confidential and privileged. If you receive this e-mail and you are not a > > > named addressee you are hereby notified that you are not authorized to > > > read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this communication without the > > > consent of the sender and that doing so is prohibited and may be > > > unlawful. > > > Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the > > > message was misdirected. After replying, please delete and otherwise > > > erase it and any attachments from your computer system. Your assistance > > > in correcting this error is appreciated. > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 23:01, Simone Piunno wrote: > > this is just to inform you I have received an email from you but I wasn't a > > named addresse. According to the notice that was included in that email, I > > was not authorized to read, print, retain, copy and disseminate that email > > without your consent, and that doing so could be unlawful. Then I've > > decided to fulfill the request to reply and inform you of what happened, as > > I'm doing now. I confirm I've already deleted the email from my system. I > > hope this will be appreciated. > > This is to inform both of you that while Mark can legally deny your/our right > to print, copy, or disseminate his emails, but he cannot prevent you/us from > reading or retaining it. Likewise, you/we are not legally obligated to delete > or erase his emails, nor to inform him of any such "mistakes" simply because > he tells you to. Then again it could be a simple signature asking that people who get a message via misdirection, simply tell him so he can re-send to the proper people and then toss it (Unless you're really curious about what he does). Seems to boil down to common courtesy, and easily ignored if it offends.
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