On 06/05/2002 09:05 PM, did Raju Mathur write (doodah! doodah!): >>>>>>"abhi" == abhi sri <Abhi> writes: > abhi> And assuming someone mails at some forum from some corporate > abhi> address (say adobe.com), can't the employee(and if he is at > abhi> the workplace especially) be considered to be representing > abhi> the company ? Just asking... > Probably yes. To the best of my knowledge, at the moment an e-mail > isn't a legally valid document until it is signed using an ID from one > of the CA's recognised by the Government of India. However, e-mails > definitely go towards projecting an image of an organisation.
At Netscape, the employment agreement we signed before starting work had a clause in it that said that the employee had to be careful about representing the company's opinions in public forums. Pretty vaguely worded stuff. And not once were we sued for anything somebody with a @netscape.com email address said. The worst offenders of the brain-dead disclaimers are the Big Five Auditors such as Ernst and Young and Deloitte and Touche. They go to the other extreme of completely covering their asses. In these post-Anderson days, one wonders if a lone employee posting defamatory stuff to a LI mailing list would have done more damage than all the routine illegal stuff that went on inside the company. Thaths -- Apu: But, sir, the head office is in India. Homer: OK. Lisa: Dad, that's over 10,000 miles away. Homer I'm aware of that! Lisa: That's over 16,000 kilometers. Homer: D'oh! thaths at aunet.org Slacker At Large http://www.aunet.org/~thaths/ Key fingerprint = 8A 84 2E 67 10 9A 64 03 24 38 B6 AB 1B 6E 8C E4 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
