[Gllug] Need to add company reg to web pages and emails?

[Bernard Peek]

In message <20061221171145.GA15906 at furbychan.cocan.org>, Richard Jones 
<rich at annexia.org> writes
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/new_web_email_regulation/
>
>Is this for real?

Ten years ago my company lawyer advised me that the law probably 
required all formal company communications, specifically including 
emails, l to have the usual registered office details. He said that it 
wasn't being enforced for email even though that's what the law 
required. It now looks as if it is going to be.

Recently it's been established that emails can be legal documents so 
rather than risk problems I expect most companies will add a new footer 
to all of their mails. Any mailing list infested with top-posters is 
going to get unbearable.

Of course it does mean that any spammer based in the UK will be breaking 
the law if they don't include their real registered office address. I 
think that's probably the main reason for doing this. I'm in two minds 
whether that's worth the cost of requiring everyone else to do it.




-- 
Bernard Peek
bap at shrdlu.com

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