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R.S. wrote:
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Does anybody realise that you cannot issue prior restraint?
You cannot legally enforce the fact that you cannot disseminate an
e-mail that was sent to you, stating you can't send it from here!
If an email was sent to you, unsolicited, you can do whatever you
want with it.
Sending to a list server is unsolicited.
I know this is the law in Canada; I'm pretty sure it's the same in
the US.
As the Klingons say: "if you don't want it heard, you shall not say it".
I'm not sure, but I think this is a little bit on topic.
I disagree. It's not. As far as I understand you talk about "legal"
disclaimers in the mails. Well, I also have one, unfortunately it is
completely independent from me. I believe others have no choice as
well. So, let's keep ingoring them and talk about bits and bytes (in a
mainframe).
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I disagree with both of these viewpoints. If I know that I have certain
information because of the presence of a NDA, I will obey the SPIRIT of
that agreement. If I am asked about things that fall under that NDA, I
will be deaf, mute and stupid. I'm just tickled pink to be privy to that
information, and refuse to jeopardize any chance I might have in the
future of getting access to that sort of information. Instead of
nit-picking over exact wording and obscurely-written laws, we should be
looking at the reasoning behind the NDA.
How many of you have been consultants and agreed, in your contracts, not
to discuss customer business or internal discussions outside customer
premises? While consulting fees have sometimes been referred to as
highway robbery, even among theives there is still honor! :-)
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