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Email Disclaimers
By Brick | December 8, 2008
What I would like to see is a standard set for appending legal disclaimers to emails. In this way email client software could hide all this silly text. The email software could, for example, add a link with something like "This email contains disclaimers. Click here to read". Or even simpler, could we just not put a simple link to the disclaimer instead of adding it to each and every email? I heard that the ability to "hyperlink" has become available on the web.
I just read a thread of email where the content was over 80% of the form:
This e-mail (and attachment(s)) is confidential, proprietary, may be subject to copyright and legal privilege and no related rights are waived. If you are not the intended recipient or its agent, any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. All messages may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations and our policies to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and you are deemed to have accepted any risk if you communicate with us by e-mail. If received in error, please notify us immediately and delete the e-mail (and any attachments) from any computer or any storage medium without printing a copy.
This is not efficient. When a lot of people are replying to these messages, it becomes too easy to miss the actual content when navigating around this "fine print". And that’s the problem, in plain text email, there is no real substitute for actual fine print. By the way, while we are at it we could do the same for the email "signatures".
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December 24th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too - keep up the great work!