What you can do about legalese nonsense on email (was: How to split value where is comma ?)
Jussi Piitulainen
jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Fri Sep 9 01:39:26 EDT 2016
Grant Edwards writes:
> On 2016-09-08, Joaquin Alzola <Joaquin.Alzola at lebara.com> wrote:
>
>> Basically what all comes down is to complain. I wonder if in a
>> company of 80,000 people I will manage to change that behaviour.
>
> Perhaps others have complained. If enough people complain, maybe
> they'll do something.
>
> After all, that boilerplate just makes the corporation look stupid and
> incompetent. Any email that leaves the corporate network must be
> assumed to be visible to world+dog. Anybody who thinks differently is
> deluded and should not be allowed access to information that is
> "confidential and subject to privledge".
I read Lebara's "Vision" and "Mission" and I remember that whenever
Lebara says anything, they end it with that rude disclaimer. I don't
want to get in touch with Lebara. That's how stupid it is.
> But, I'm sure there's a lawyer somewhere who's trying to cover his
> ass regardless of how foolish it looks...
As if Lebara's real mission is to cover their lawyers' asses.
>> This email is confidential and may be subject to privilege. If you
>> are not the intended recipient, please do not copy or disclose its
>> content but contact the sender immediately upon receipt.
Spammers should use a disclaimer like that. Then people would not dare
to delete the spam without first confirming to the spammer that they
read their spam. Or not.
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