On 2016-09-08, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016, at 18:13, Grant Edwards wrote: >> After all, that boilerplate just makes the corporation look stupid and >> incompetent. Any email that leaves the corporate network must be >> assumed to be visible to world+dog. Anybody who thinks differently is >> deluded and should not be allowed access to information that is >> "confidential and subject to privledge". > > If every lawyer in the world benefits from the interpretation that this > sort of notice is legally effective (since tomorrow it may be they who > accidentaly send privileged information), who will argue in court that > it's not?
Anybody who benefits from it not being effective -- like the NYT reporter who broke a front page story based on a misdirected email (described in the article to which you linked). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this sexual at intercourse yet?? Is it, gmail.com huh, is it?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list