On Sun, Sep 01, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: [OT] Looking for jobs": > Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I find it very impolite to have this kind of e-mail sent > > a public mailing list. > > While I agree in principle, it may be out of control of the sender...
I hear this from many people, but I still think this is horseshit. If you don't know what horseshit means, read the definition in http://mslinux.org :) (Sorry Oleg, I don't mean to offend you, just trying to be funny ;) ). What if your email system at work added a 100k advertisement for your company, or worse, a juicy collection of 4-letter words to each of your emails? Would you still use that system to send out emails to your friends or to mailing lists? No. You'll either tell your employers to change their offensive system, or if you can't you'll get a different email account, from a yahoo.com, from and ISP, or whatever, and use that to mail to people outside your company. Similarly, the legal signature (which I doubt, by the way, is attached automatically - in most companies I know they require it, but it's not centrally enforced) is offensive in mailing lists. It is offensive for the same reason spam is: spammers try to shift their advertising costs onto you, and legal-sigature-putters try to shift their legal burdens onto you. Instead of making sure *they* don't accidentally send confidential information to the wrong people, they stick a huge warning/threat on each and every one of their emails, so every one of their readers will need to verify that they are not reading the wrong email, list owners need to verify that the wrong email wasn't sent to the list, archive owners must verify that the wrong email didn't end up in an archive, and so on. Most people, lists, and archives will do this for you out of the kindness of their own heart (go and remove a serious accident from the archive, I mean), so adding a legal threat is not only useless and counterproductive, it's plainly offensive. In my opinion, at least. And don't tell me that signature has no legal effect. It might not, I don't know, but then again, if it doesn't have any effect, why do people and/or system administrators insist to keep it, even when told it is offensive to some people? -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Sep 1 2002, 25 Elul 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |This box was intentionally left blank. http://nadav.harel.org.il | ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
