[Bendug] I want a filter for legaleze

[Mark Turner]

Hey man, if its me(doubt it is) the hospital server auto appends that garbage


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:11:42 -0800, Tim Howe <thowe at my180.net> wrote:
> 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
> 


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-Mark A Turner-
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