On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Arthur T. wrote: > It's a losing battle, but you might try some combination > of:
It is a lost battle and war. > > 1. Find sites which explain that the disclaimers aren't > legally binding, anyway. Explain that the company may get > bad publicity if its disclaimer ends up on (e.g.) > <http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/list.html>. They don't care. Or, at least, they don't seem to care. > > 2. Show them a screen print of their HTML disclaimer from a > non-HTML email client. Suggest that any legally binding > effect of the disclaimer may be nullified if it is thus > hidden within "unreadable" HTML text. Again, they won't care. The mindset is basically that our clients and others need to use advanced email clients. 99.9% most likely do (Windows, of course). > > 3 Search for various sites which explain why HTML email is > bad, in general. Show them to your boss. (E.g. > <http://www.expita.com/nomime.html>.) My boss doesn't like this either. But this is not coming from our company. It is coming from the super-high ups in NYC who bought us. > > 4. Research past work-related questions you've asked on > Listservs (this and others), and the amount of time it took > to get back good answers. Explain that this source of > answers is not available if you're required to post in > HTML. Even my boss would likely be unimpressed. He wants everybody to call the appropriate vendor when we have a question which we cannot answer in a timely manner. He is not against lists, but does not consider them to be of very much importance. Especially IBM-MAIN, due to the "noise" level that most of us indulge ourselves in. Hum, he's been in our staff meetings, which tend to rabbit trail quite often. But he doesn't like it here. In any case, I am set up at home now. And, if necessary, I can still get to my lists by logging onto my home Linux system from my work Linux system via SSH. Glad I'm not running Debian <twisted grin>. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
