On Wed, June 14, 2006 16:44, Jesse Pelton said: > A word to the wise: no message footer can prevent "dissemination, > distribution, copying, or disclosure" when you post to a public list > like this one. In fact, such footers are probably toothless in any > situation and serve only to annoy. It's your responsibility how and to > whom you transmit information, and recipients tend to dislike attempts > to shift your responsibility to them. If New York Life appends this > notice to all your messages, you might tell them how it's being > received. > > In your line of work, confidentiality is important, and I would advise > using secure means when transmitting anything sensitive. Messages sent > over the internet pass through a lot of network infrastructure and could > be intercepted at many points along the way, even if you send them to > exactly and only the correct recipient(s). It's up to you to protect > them. Weak but simple security is available by password-protecting zip > files; public-key cryptography provides more security, but is harder to > set up. If you wanted my business, you'd have to do the latter.
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