Netiquette

[Martin Laberge]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008 15:23:08 Michael Leone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, June 25, 2008 11:07 am, Michael Leone wrote:
> >> I see people on mailing lists (only Linux-related mailing lists, BTW)
> >> say those disclaimers are invalid, etc, because it's a mailing list.
> >
> >    Nope.  Generally we point out they are meaningless because they are not
> > legally binding.  They're written in legalese, they make some people
> > feel warm and fuzzy because they appear all legalese and threatening but
> > to my knowledge they are completely, utterly invalid and have never been
> > tested in any court.
> 
> 
> If they've never been tested in court, then they *could* be valid,
> hence the need to include it, on the off-chance that it *might* be
> held up in court one day. And even if one court says they are invalid,
> another higher court could overturn that, and then they go back to
> being valid.  So rather than take the chance, disclaimers are included
> on emails.
> 
> And again, we've spent more bandwidth talking about, than it took up.
> It's like complaining of top-posting. If you've got enough time to
> complain about top-posting, you've got too much free time on your
> hands. :-) Just move on, I say ...
> 
> 
> 
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It should exist an international (UN??) treatee who implicitly
include a legal protection around the world, after some
talk of those matters, to be fully legal.

What if the email is dropped in another country.
Who do you sue, (if you ever can)?

How will you know that this email was misdirected
to another person?

To be precise, if you send your bank listing thru
open unencrypted email to your other office on the
other side of the country, then you just need to be 
out of business soon, and first FLUSH the sysadmin
who let you do this without advising you of using
other transports (SSL ??) for sensitive contents.

Sending confidential info by email unencrypted
is a bet for the worst. No message will change this.


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Martin Laberge
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