[horde] Couple of Items - Signature When Replying, Not Authorized To Use IMP
Michael M Slusarz
slusarz at horde.org
Tue Oct 29 21:02:48 UTC 2013
Quoting "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <jmozdzen at nde.ag>:
> And actually those company policies needn't be "misguided" - there
> are countries (Germany being one) where certain signature
> information is actually required by law. Not under every
> circumstances, but instead of risking expensive law suites, it is
> easier to tell the general company user to add a company-designed
> signature to every business email.
The whole "this is required by law" argument makes me laugh. At least
in the current American law landscape.
In (one of) my other lives, I am an attorney. I used to work on large
civil cases in Federal Court - these are the cases between Fortune 500
companies with large delegations of expensive private attorneys.
There was not a single case I ever dealt with where the "disclaimer"
language in an e-mail meant anything. It is absolutely pointless. If
an e-mail is sent, and there is a copy somewhere, it is most likely
discoverable. (In the rare case it it isn't, it has *nothing* to do
with the disclaimer.) These kind of disclaimers are analogous to
shrink-wrap contracts and/or contracts of adhesion - with the caveat
that e-mail disclaimers are even less enforceable since there
generally is not any consideration involved.
So with my e-mail client developer hat on, I can do things like design
the client so that you can't do these kinds of inane, pointless
actions - at least by default. Its my small effort to help clean up
e-mail and make it more useable.
michael
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