atw: Re: OT: Sig files, gee I love that kind of talk.
- From: MHT <runfox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:55:59 -0500
Reg,
Too funny. Thanks for the levity.
Regards,
Minnesota Mary
At 02:09 PM 6/22/04 +0200, you wrote:
>Sig files (Gee I love that kind of talk)
>----------------------------------------
>
>I may be the only person that reads them, but many of the corporate sig
>files I see at the end of messages posted to public news groups and
>email lists range from amusing to downright offensive. Here is an
>example:
>
>"This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is
>confidential, proprietary, privileged or otherwise protected by
>law. The information is solely intended for the named addressee (or a
>person responsible for delivering it to the addressee). If you are not
>the intended recipient of this message, you are not authorized to
>read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this message or any part of
>it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the
>sender immediately by return e-mail and delete it from your computer."
>
>Some questions and comments:
>
>"This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is
>confidential, proprietary, privileged..."
>What the fresh hell is "privileged information"? What kinds of
>privileges can information have?
>
>"...or otherwise protected by law."
>Whose law, what law? Some law in your country? Do you know the laws in
>my country, which may say something like "You can read anything you
>damn-well please, and no ratbag is allowed to tell you that you cannot
>read it." Your sig statement may be in breach of that law, watch out! In
>addition, I have seen the same sig file under emails from other
>companies. It is possible that you have plagiarised it and breached
>copyright!
>
>"If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are not
>authorized to read..."
>No unarmed person is going to tell me not to read something. If you do
>not want me to read it, then do not show it to me, that is your
>responsibility, not mine.
>
>"If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender
>immediately..."
>What, you made a mistake and now I have to spend my time fixing it,
>"immediately"? You are joking, why did you bother writing this? On the
>other hand, my fee for composing and sending an email to correct your
>error is 120.00 EUR, payable in advance on account. Your email was
>sent to an email list with about 2000 addressees, what will you do
>when you suddenly receive 1999 emails telling you how stupid you are?
>
>"...and delete it from your computer."
>Clearly, this does not go far enough. I would add:
>"Please also reformat or destroy your hard disk, and that of your email
>server, to ensure complete erasure of the message we sent you in error.
>Following this, we require that you cut off both hands and have your
>tongue surgically removed so as not to inadvertantly re-transmit the
>confidential information and thus breach information privilege
>(whatever that is) as a result of our stupid error."
>
>
>
>This was a Friday rant. If you read it on any other day, by law you must
>immediately wipe it from your memory and store it in a secure place
>until your calendar indicates that it is a Friday.
>
>That's the LAW, so do it immediately. And sit up straight while you are
>doing it.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Reg
>=0D
>=0D
>--=0D
>R=E9ginald Hardman=0D
>R=E9dacteur Technique=0D
>Paris, France =0D
>=0D
>Reginald Hardman=0D
>Technical writer=0D
>Paris, France
>
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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