If I've ever sent you an email from work, you'll have seen the big wodge of cruft at the bottom.
The information in this email is confidential and may be legally
privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this
email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended
recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or
omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be
unlawful. <My Employer> Ltd. cannot accept liability for statements made
which are clearly the senders own.
This is pretty embarrassing - since this was added, I've posted to c.l.py and the like very much less frequently.
Well, it looks like companies are pretty much obliged to put this stuff in these days - you can't get insurance without it. So it looks like we'll just have to put up with this waste-of-perfectly-good-bandwidth in future. Sigh.
Oh, and the missing apostrophe in "senders" is just the icing on the cake. ;-)
Posted to The Internet by Simon Brunning at April 16, 2003 01:27 PMMy work email is just the same, fortunately adding
--LongSig
at the end of the message seems to keep this cruft off most of the mailing lists I post to.
I bet it has no legal standing anyway, but IANAL...
Posted by: Jim Hughes on April 16, 2003 01:42 PMSimon, if I was worried about bandwidth you wouldn't have a job.
Posted by: El Presidente on April 16, 2003 05:54 PMI think my work address wins the prize, a total of 1016 characters, 1198 with spaces!
Posted by: Mark Boyce on April 17, 2003 01:23 PMI tried the --LongSig thing. It turns out that this a feature of majordomo mailing list software. Anything not sent via a mailing list, and anything sent via a mailing list using different software (like the increasingly popular MailMan) won't have this lot stripped off. :-(
Thanks for the tip, though, Jim.
Posted by: Simon on April 28, 2003 03:58 PM