On 03/05/2011 16:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Karsten Hilbert<Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> writes:
>> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:33:34PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> If you post here, the above disclaimer is not effective. Right now
>>> your words are being copied across the internet...
>
>> By typing / selecting a public list address "written consent
>> of the author" can be assumed to exist implicitely ;-)
>
> Nonetheless, corporate lawyers who insist on such disclaimers on all
> email are idiots, and make their company's employees look like idiots
> as well. Every disclaimer on obviously-public mail hastens the day
> when such disclaimers will have no legal force whatsoever (if indeed
> there's any left to them now).
I don't want to start a flame war, but did they every have any legal
force in the first place?
Ray.
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