Legal disclaimers in e-mail (was Re: Back in with the group (careful this is crawled))

[Roy Jacobsen <royj -at- writingclearandsimple -dot- com>]

IANAL, but I've always thought those legal disclaimers in e-mails were
an exercise in futility. Can't imaging how they're supposed to be
enforced, for example.

Suzette Leeming wrote:
> So, does this mean that the legal stuff that's put at the bottom of messages
> has no weight?
>
> For example:
>
> "This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain
> confidential, proprietary
> or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived
> or lost by any
> mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately
> delete it and all
> copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the
> sender. *You must
> not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any
> part of this
> message if you are not the intended recipient.
> *
>   
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*Roy Jacobsen***

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