--On Monday, January 08, 2007 5:16 PM +0000 Gordon Henderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While disclaimers may well be useless, if you're in the UK then you might
legally need that boilerplate afterall:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/new_web_email_regulation/
The article references this email disclaimer advice from a UK law firm:
<http://www.out-law.com/page-5536>
Of particular note is this line:
Such notices cost nothing to include ? so it's worth having them.
Other items of note:
There is no legal authority on the effectiveness of these notices in
email messages; but that is not to say that they should not be used,
provided care is taken in drafting them.
Common sense dictates that adding this notice to the foot of the email is
too late: if the notice is read at all, it will be read after the
message. The email system used by your organisation may or may not
facilitate the automatic posting of a confidentiality notice above the
text of all messages being sent externally. If it does, this is the best
practice to follow.
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