On 19 Jul 2009, at 3:32pm, John Machin wrote: > On 20/07/2009 12:08 AM, P Kishor wrote: >> >> unfortunately, we get either advertisements nowadays >> > >> or a signature twice the length of the message warning us that the >> contents of the particular email are confidential and meant only for >> the recipient, and if I am not the recipient then I should promptly >> destroy the message. > > The screamingly funny bit is that they should say "*intended* > recipient" > but often they don't -- if I receive it, whether intended or not, I am > the recipient :-)
Actually, the screamingly funny bit is that under both UK and US law, not only is there no legal force behind the implied threat, but that intentionally using the same boilerplate message to send non- confidential messages invalidates all use of the boilerplate text. In other words by using that text on all messages, whether confidential or not, you are implicitly admitting that you don't regard any of your messages as particularly confidential. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
