--On 11 April 2007 14:43:27 +0100 Drav Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon Faulkner wrote: >>> Yes. In germany we have to add the disclaimer to any outgoing message :-( Of course, this is not a "disclaimer". It's an imprint (German "impressum"), which is a kind of identifier. >> Are you *sure*? >> >> Many people think that we have to do that in the UK now but if you read >> carefully you don't actually *have* to. > > Read where? Where is the legislation online? I tried looking back in > January, only to find it was not online at that time. > > Regards > > Drav. It says that UK business email has to contain company details. I doubt that Exim mailing list traffic qualifies as business email. It might if you tried to recruit a postmaster through the list, or offered a bounty for a bug-fix or a new feature. On 14 January, I posted this on the matter: The text of the 1985 act isn't available online, but the text of section 351 (which now applies to emails - <http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20063429.htm>) has been posted to the uk-mail-managers mailing list: > 351 Particulars in correspondence etc > (1) Every company shall have the following particulars mentioned in > legible characters in all business letters, websites and order forms of > the company, that is to say- > (a) the company's place of registration and the number with which it > is registered, > (b) the address of its registered office, > (c) in the case of an investment company (as defined in section > 266), the fact that it is such a company, and > (d) in the case of a limited company exempt from the obligation to > use the word "limited" as part of its name [under section 30 or a > community interest company which is not a public company], the fact that > it is a limited company. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
