Hi, > > Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> writes: > > > > > If you read the confidentiality notice, you'll see that it merely > > > says that the contents of the email _may_ be confidential. Also, it > > > warns people who _aren't_ the intended addressees -- but if the > > > message was sent to a public email list then obviously there are no such > people. > > > > > > So I don't see any problem. > > > > Then I guess you missed this unconditional part?: > > > > "be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this > > e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. " > > > > This means that victor is deliberately violating his company policy by > > continuing to send emails to a public list, which is the direct action > > causing disclosure, copying and distribution of the e-mail. You can > > of course not blame list admins or subscribers here. > > > > I still do not see how a patch with such restrictions can be useful to > > anyone. But I am not the one to decide that... > > This is wrong, partly because you are quoting out of context and partly > because > of a grammatical error in the original notice. Here's the text with the > context > retained: > > If you are not the intended addressee (or authorized to receive > for the addressee). be aware that any disclosure, copying, > distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is > prohibited. > > It is clear, from the lack of capitalization of the word "be" and the fact > that the > preceding text is only a sentence fragment, that the period following the > close- > parenthesis was meant to be a comma. > Therefore this prohibition applies only to people who are not meant to be > reading an open mailing list -- and there are no such people. > > This means that victor did not violate any policies. >
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