Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-12 Thread Josh Berkus
All, > Perhaps we make a policy that corporate-style ("disclaimered") mail > is encouraged to seek support via corporate-style channels (e.g. is > pointed at the commercial support companies).  I'm uncomfortable with > such a policy, but it'd be better than "ignore these nasty corporate > victims"

Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:50:11PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > This is all true, but the reality here is that people in such a situation > are usually flat-out violating their corporate policy by posting to the > list at all from inside this kind of company. We don't know that in advance, and

Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Greg Smith wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote: If enough people do that, it might coerce people to avoid them, and perhaps we could put something in the FAQ about it. You should just say flat-out that the terms of the mailing list are incompatible with confidentiality and similar

Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: I know we have talked about how to avoid legal email signatures on this list. One idea would be for a small percentage of our users to ignore emails with a legal signature. I know I am less likely to reply to such an email. Bah Bruce come on. The people that are sendi

Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Moreover, people who are in such environments are often prevented from visiting gmail, hotmail, or the other likely suspects in order to send their messages in circumvention of corporate policy. This is all true, but the reality here is that people

Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote: If enough people do that, it might coerce people to avoid them, and perhaps we could put something in the FAQ about it. You should just say flat-out that the terms of the mailing list are incompatible with confidentiality and similar legal disclaimers

Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:14:00PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I know we have talked about how to avoid legal email signatures on this > list. One idea would be for a small percentage of our users to ignore > emails with a legal signature. I know I am less likely to reply to such > an email. T