Ah, the blog is feeling neglected. Time for a little rant ….
I was reading Joe Dog’s Blog (his brilliant Siege load testing tool brought me there) and was compelled to add my 2p worth….
Long legal-sounding disclaimers at the bottom so many emails – what a waste of Internet bandwidth. Did an email disclaimer ever accomplish ANYTHING useful?
I’m sorry, if someone is careless enough to send emails to me in error, they have no right to make that my problem. I don’t have time to erase every last trace of their mistake off my system/mail server. Especially not if they try to put me under some sort of legal threat to do so! I will probably delete the email before even getting to read the stupid disclaimer, but it is bound to linger in the Trash folder for a while. Go on, sue me. Be more careful where you send your email next time if it contains ‘highly sensitive and confidential’ material.
And how about emails that tell me right at the bottom of the email that if I am ‘not authorised’ I shouldn’t read the contents…. does nobody see the problem here?!
OK, steam blown of. I now googled “email disclaimer reasons” to see if there actually is any real benefit to a disclaimer… doesn’t appear to be the case. Please let me know if you know otherwise.
The search did however throw up The Email Disclaimer Awards 2001 by the Register …. good fun.
P.S. If you are one of those unfortunate people forced by your employer to keep sending meaningless rubbish with every single email you write…. I feel deeply sorry for you 
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