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Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 10 Sep 2015 00:41:29 -0000
If your employer insists on attaching a legalistic signature to your email which warns the recipient that the message is for their eyes only... it's because you are not authorized to make public statements as an employee of the company.
No, that's not it. A disclaimer "I don't speak for foocorp" is not at all the same as "you have to keep this super sekrit foocorp message confidential." The disclaimers tend to be much shorter and are somewhat reasonable, stating that this message does *not* constitute a contract. As explained at length, the confidentiality stuff purports to be a contract but is not. As I said it can be summarized as "I am stupid" or "I am controlled by stupid." Regards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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