On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:15:50 +0000 fern.tje...@aiyja.com wrote: > Disclaimer: This e-mail communication and any attachments to it, are > confidential and privileged to Etheria Services and Etheria Group, within the > European Union, and this includes its sister companies, and to the correct > recipients of this email, which are directly applicable to GDPR regulations, > and only confidential use of that designated recipient(s) named above in this > email may receive the contents herein. If you are not the intended recipient > of this message, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, > distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited and may be > unlawful and can result in heavy fines relative to your company's income. > Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message > along with all attachments. We give no rights to any reader of this email, to > sell or forward our employee or company details on, to any third party, > without specific written request
Stupid question, but _why_ are we sending this to a public mailing list if it's confidential? I can guarantee the email _will_ be seen by people _not_ listed as "correct recipients" because it can be seen by theoretically **anyone**. Secondly, isn't it a bit late to tell me _now_ that your email is confidential _after_ I have read the body in full? I don't know how people read emails in the European Union, but here in Australia, I start at the top and read to the bottom, not bottom to top (maybe that explains the business world's like for top-posting). That is how I was taught to read when I was learning to read in primary school back in the early 90s, and how I continue to read English text today: I know the law is an ass best ridden backwards, but I didn't think "backwards" is how I was meant to read legal documents too! Thirdly, how I am I meant to "destroy" the copies, assuming I am not a "correct recipient" (which, by the way, is not defined). If this means destruction of the physical storage devices, do I get compensated by Etheria Group for the 5× 2TB HDDs and 4× 2TB SSDs, any of which "may" be "storing" in part or in full, the very email they want "destroyed"? And what comes of all the _other_ data I have sharing those storage volumes that your footer so forcefully asserts should be cast to the bit bucket? It's a nice gesture publicly thanking the OpenBSD authors for their hard efforts, but legal fashion be damned, I strongly object to the demands made in your email's footer. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
