On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:45:44AM -0000, John Levine wrote:
> It's clueless cargo cult lawyering.
+1, and see also:
http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#legalistic
which reads in part:
"First, such boilerplate contains useless adhesions, meaning
the explicit and implied threats they make are particularly
annoying. If you send something via email, the recipients (are
you sure you aren't sending to a mailing list?) and anyone else
who sees your clear text postcard in transit can undetectably and
with full deniability do whatever they want with the information
written on it in plain view. Even casual users of email know
email is not a secure communications medium. Thus the threats in
typical bogus legalistic boilerplate are naught but an attempt
at highly improper intimidation. Demands made in this manner
will be regarded as evidence of a hostile attitude on your
part by a significant portion of recipients. The threats will
negatively affect how your recipients perceive the other ideas
in your message.
Second, in the case of mailing lists (are you sure the address
to which you sent isn't one?) or USENET posts, falsely claiming
a message is "confidential and privileged" is simply too stupid
for words."
---rsk
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