[Bendug] I want a filter for legaleze

[Tim Howe]

I am really starting to get enraged about this new fad of puting legal
disclaimers in email.  Why do people do this?  Reading some of them makes me
wonder if it is even legal to store the email on my server...

True story: some guy was sending email after email to someone, and he kept
getting the address wrong (both his and the person's he was sending too!).  So
the mail kept getting dropped to the mail daemon account.  I saw these messages,
but there was a legal disclaimer in the stupid email that said something like
"if this message was not meant for you delete it immediately!".  So I did. 
Every time.
	Finally the guy called wondering why his email wasn't getting where it was
supposed to go.  I told him I had seen those and that the addresses were all
wrong.  So he asks me "Why didn't you let me know?".  Well duh.  "Because your
message said if it wasn't for me I had to delete it right away."  He didn't know
what to say to that.

I'm sick of it.  It's fscking email!  It's text that you transmit accross a
public network!  If it's so secret and private and confidential and legally
binding and whatever other rediculous bullshit you put in your disclaimer, then
encrypt it or something!

What I want is a filter.  Something like dspam or something.  I want this filter
to detect legal garbage at the end of emails and bounce the mail back to these
folks telling them that my email server is an At Will server or something.  That
I do not feel like indulging the legal  bullshit that people seem to think they
can put in their mail.  that they need to recognize that if my system is
spending clock cycles to except their mail, store their mail, and deliver their
mail to me, that it is in fact MY mail and they have no say over what happens to
it.

Maybe if enough people did this this insane trend would stop.

--TimH