On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Robinson Tryon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> As I said in my original email, I'm merely suggesting that Meego (and
> other projects) should make a recommendation against the
> auto-inclusion of these bits of legalese. By making such a
> recommendation I hope that we can actually give the employees the
> necessary ammo to go back to their employers and ask them to turn off
> the auto-inclusion or to relax the company policy that makes the
> inclusion mandatory.
Sadly, I think we all know that these kind of mentions are added by
obnoxious people who don't know, want to know nor care about the
impact it has. I have attempted numerous times to have it removed from
my company's email policy, but sadly I've lost every single battle,
and have even taken quite a bit of heat for attempting it. I don't
believe that even making a recommendation would make the slightest of
differences.
> If there are community members who do not have the organizational
> authority or technical wherewithal to remove this kind of legal text
> from their email, would it be too much to ask them to rebut the footer
> text in their first post to the list? What about something like "I'm
> unable to remove the legalese below, but for all of my email posts to
> Meego mailing lists, everyone may disregard this legalese" ? (feel
> free to correct me here, lawyers)
No, they're not legally empowered to do so. To give you an example, I
have been given a reprimand because I removed the "Please do not print
this email, think of the trees" line from my signature, as it used a
"nice tree icon" in a font that broke every single time the mail went
to any other client than Lotus Notes. And this is a government agency
in Australia. I can't even imagine what trouble I'd get in if I
attempted to completely remove the legalese, or add a line saying it
ought to be disregarded.
Please let's not try to get people into trouble. I'm sure a lot of
companies and a lot of people went through a lot of trouble to simply
be allowed to work on a project such as this one, and causing more
turmoil definitely won't improve the situation.
We all know that those disclaimers are absolutely worthless and
unenforceable. What bothers me more is that most of these corporate
mail clients don't respect standard signature signs (dash dash space
return) that would allow most people to completely strip signature,
legalese and mailing list noise from each and every email. It's sad to
see that even this mailing list doesn't follow such a simple rule.
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