On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Janice B. Bescherer wrote: > Received the following. Any info regarding its meaning? > > Thanks. > > Janice > > This email including any files transmitted with it is intended solely for > the above-mentioned recipient and it may contain confidential or privileged > information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender > immediately and then destroy any copies of it. You must not copy, > distribute, disclose or take any action in reliance on it.
It means that the company from whose machine that mail was sent has a bunch of nervous lawyers working for it who required that disclaimer to be attached to all their outgoing mail messages. (If that company is *your* company, you probably forgot to attach something to your message, so "the following" referred to the disclaimer rather than to the error to which you're referring.)
