Disclaimers (Was: [Xitami] CGI Scripting)

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <000001c16468$503b3b40$6400000a@techapp.co.uk>
   "David Lambert" writes:

> Thanks you all for the replies, including those concerning the disclaimer.
> It's part and parcel of living in the UK now, where privacy laws are under
> considerable threat. Our govt. likes to snoop, so does your but they haven't
> told you yet!

Nevertheless, including such a disclaimer on mails sent on the one-to-many
basis of a mailing list is consummately stupid, because YOU have no
control over the members of the set which your disclaimer calls "intended
recipients", since members may join and leave the list at any time, and
in most cases any legislation upon which you are relying is positively
NOT applicable to the "recipients".

I would advise anyone with such boilerplate inclusions to configure their
mailers so as NOT to send it when the addressee is a mailing list; ditto
for postings to newsgroups, where such disclaimers are equally risible.

PHBs require educating as to the differing modes in which e-mail might be
used: for them to issue an edict requiring such boilerplate on mails
which are not one-to-one (or one-to-few) merely reinforces just why they
ARE pointy-haired bosses.

[Catching upon on some hundreds of posts to the list that have occurred
during my brief visit to .cy]

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs