From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Lew <lew(at)nospam(dot)lewscanon(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Against legal disclaimers in email |
Date: | 2007-05-19 18:33:12 |
Message-ID: | 15024.1179599592@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Lew <lew(at)nospam(dot)lewscanon(dot)com> writes:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Penchalaiah P. wrote:
>>> Information transmitted by this e-mail is proprietary to Infinite
>>> Computer Solutions
>>
>> It may be proprietary, but it shore ain't confidential!
> Placing "confidential" on every document without regard for its
> content, especially when some of it's publicly disseminated, can
> remove the protection of confidentiality at law from all such marked
> documents in many jurisdictions, including the U.S. There must be
> discrimination applied in the marking of information as
> "confidential".
> Quite aside from the foolishness you pointed out of marking something
> "confidential" then placing it into the public eye in an archived
> forum where it will be visible by everybody forever.
> Now we can publish everything ever written at or by Infinite Computer
> Solutions without fear of liability.
Wow, that is a great argument that I've not seen before. The only
way we'll ever make a dent in the plague of legalistic disclaimers
auto-attached to email is if we can convince corporate lawyers that
there is a downside *to them* of insisting on the damned things.
This is the first argument I've seen that there might actually be
a serious legal downside to the practice.
Can you cite chapter and verse to back up this position? It'd be
great to have a well-reasoned FAQ document that people could just
automatically send to anyone exhibiting this folly ...
regards, tom lane
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