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he.net down/slow?
- Subject: he.net down/slow?
- From: jgreco at ns.sol.net (Joe Greco)
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:54:09 -0600 (CST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> from "William Herrin" at Jan 10, 2010 01:12:44 AM
> Actually that's not a great idea. A notice that the recipient is
> expected to handle information with unusual attention to
> confidentiality is required by law to stand out so that there isn't
> any ambiguity about the duties demanded of the recipient. Trade secret
> cases have been lost because a sender relied on the email boilerplate,
> the recipient produced intentionally public emails with the same
> boilerplate, and the recipient asserted that he had no reason to
> believe the particular message was any more sensitive than the
> sender's routine public messages.
The use of the words "intended recipient" are also extremely problematic;
by definition, if it is addressed to me, I can be construed as being the
"intended recipient." If I then turn around and forward it to you, you
are now also an "intended recipient." Nice, eh.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.