[ALUG] your help on antivirus software and file removal

[MJ Ray]

Keith <kpwatson at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Apologies to all for the disclaimer text on the end of my last post.
> I'd switched this of but it looks like my employer is now adding this to
> all outgoing emails regardless.

It's probably some well-meaning postmaster who has failed to wrap
their head around the latest advice that all business emails should
have company name, registered number, place and office.

All that 'this is ours and we'll eat your first born'-style nonsense
probably does as much harm as good.  It even contradicts itself: "If
you have received it by mistake, please notify the author immediately
by replying [...]" and "If you are not the intended recipient you must
not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely on this e-mail."
Reply or not use/copy?  Make your mind up!

I'd send your postmaster the link to
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
and ask them why they think the legal situation has changed and why
they started tampering with outgoing personal email without warning.
(Of course, if their policy has always banned non-work email use, then
you probably shouldn't do that.)

Hope that helps,
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