I never said otherwise. I did say that from a liability standpoint it is reasonable to inject it and everyone who can ignore it should simply ignore it.
Best, -M< On 1/9/10, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: > Martin Hannigan wrote: >> Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for each >> communication that should be covered by the NDA. As much as everyone >> would like to believe these are wothless, they are not. Applying them >> globally to your email protects your legal rights. It is also >> innocous. > > Your attorney will likely advise you that boiler plate language between > two people who have not previously agreed to honor it is unlikely to be > interpreted as conferring benefit on the sender, and then invoice you > for their time. > > Asserting privilege one does not in fact have is far from innocuous... > > but neither of us are lawyer's so this isn't advice. > >> Don't them it if you don't want to or perhaps a filter on keywords? >> >> Best, >> >> -M< >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 1/7/10, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: >>> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:51:41 CST, Brian Johnson said: >>>>> On 7 Jan 2010, at 18:18, William Pitcock wrote: >>>>>> ...why would you have that on a mailing list post? >>>>> because the mail server that adds it is too dumb to differentiate >>>>> between list and direct mail? >>>> Bingo! ;) >>> That sort of gratuitous "add it to everything because our software is too >>> stupid to sort it out" is *this* close to what the legal eagles call >>> "overwarning". Just sayin'. >>> >>> (Basically, your site and everybody else's site sticks it on everything, >>> all the recipients just ignore it the same way we almost always ignore >>> Received: headers because they're on every message and very rarely have >>> any useful content - with the end result that if you stick it on a >>> message >>> that *matters*, it will still get ignored....) >>> >>> Oh, and is your company ready to indemnify my employer for the costs of >>> "destroy all copies of the original message" sufficiently thoroughly to >>> prevent recovery by a competent forensics expert? This may include, but >>> not be limited to, the main mail store for 70,000 people, backup tapes, >>> and other mail systems where the data may have been logically deleted but >>> as yet not overwritten. Just sayin'. ;) >>> >> >> > > -- Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079 Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants