Hi Malcolm, It's a fairly common disclaimer. informing you they can't accept responsibility for any virus in the email by the time it reaches you.
Some other common disclaimers are: WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 30/01/2011, at 1:13 PM, McCallum Malcolm <doc...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > I have just received an email with this at the bottom of the correspondence > .As a matter of interest is the info in bold true legally? > > It is the recipients' responsibility to examine this email and any > attachments for viruses. > > This email and any attachments, and the information contained therein, are > the subject of copyright, are confidential and intended only for use by named > addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, copying > or use of any of the information is unauthorised. Any copyright or > confidentiality is not waived or otherwise lost as a result of this email > being sent to you in error. If you have received this message in error, > please immediately telephone or email us and delete all copies from your > computer system. > > > > Malcolm McCallum > > doc...@westnet.com.au > Skype docmactor > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>