On Sun Sep 20 2009 @ 12:17, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Rodrick Brown wrote: > >These disclaimers are requirements for anyone working in the > >securities industry. There isn't much the poster can do about this and > >shouldn't be bashed for this. Many of these disclaimers are > >automatically appended to everyones out going emails so there isn't > >really anything he could have done. > > Of course, if a corporation, rather than an individual, does it, it > legal...not. > > "My boss made me do it" ranks right up there beside "The devil made > me do it" or "I was just following orders". None other these > excuses are acceptable.
Let's try to at least read what the other person said. Rodrick didn't touch the legality issue. He simply pointed out that in many cases, if you work at company X and you send mail out from your email account, the disclaimer will get added to your mail. At many companies, it's also difficult and forbidden to access any non-company email while at work. Perhaps such people shouldn't email this or any other public list. I'm not going to weigh in on that. But as a practical matter, many people are stuck with those disclaimers if they want to use email from work in a straightforward manner. The disclaimers are clearly bogus, useless and annoying. I agree. But are they really that hard to ignore? Hint: they're at the bottom of the mail. Just stop reading. As for "I was just following orders," that's a pretty quick (if implicit) confirmation of Godwin's law. Thanks for helping to make the internet predictable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
