[Gllug] OT: Email disclaimers (was: WikiLeaks: Stop the crackdown - incredible response!)

[John G Walker]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:16:33 +0000 John Edwards
<john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> wrote:

> It claims the email is confidential and should only be read by the
> intended recipient (singular) without clearly saying who that it and
> "access by any other person is not authorised." Even distributing or
> storing it is "strictly prohibited".
> 
> This is a public mailing list, distributing is it's jobs. Anyone can
> join so the recipients are many, unknown and could not be considered
> as "intended". It will probably be stored on many different people's
> computers until they read, and is also archived on the web and
> viewable by anyone.

This is in line with an  email I received when I edited an academic
newsletter. This contained, amongst other things, notices of
conferences and seminars, calls for papers and the suchlike. On one
occasion I received a notice of a conference, for inclusion in
the newsletter, with a disclaimer notice stating that the information
in the email was confidential. Just for a lark I sent a reply querying
this, asking whether the notice should be published or not,

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 All the best,
 John
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