Email Disclaimers

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 03:05, James McDonald wrote:
> I am working as the One Stop IT Shop for my company and the question of email disclaimers has arisen. You know the type... This is priveleged blah blah, if you receive it in error blah blah.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on list has any experience with them and if they have information as to where I can get a good discussion on the why's and where's and hows of it.

Lots of companies do this (as well as require fonts...). I think both
stem from an administrator with too much time.

Seriously, I think the only purpose is that if you are found incorrectly
in possession of an e-mail that contains this text, you cannot say you
did not know. However, I doubt that this would ever hold up in court
when it is blindly applied to all e-mails. How, then, do you tell if
this is one you should have or one you should not have? Also, many of
these e-mails contain attachments and reply-text that do not belong to
the company putting the little blurb at the bottom. So it is not even
clear which parts can really be applied to the disclaimer.

Our parent company does this now. We do not.

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