From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 13:01:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4906216A4CF for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:01:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37ED43D39 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:01:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA7E336BBB; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:01:20 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <42014AD3.1030502@locolomo.org> References: <20050202114457.65A6243D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20050202115457.D154543D53@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20050202131022.27cac79d.lists@familiemeijer.org> <42013910.6090109@mac.com> <20050202215739.3f5d39f2.lists@familiemeijer.org> <42014AD3.1030502@locolomo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <593ffb3971a522a52a42cebcccfdf3c4@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:01:21 -0500 To: Erik Norgaard X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Nico Meijer Subject: Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:01:23 -0000 On Feb 2, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Sorry to join in on the noise: > > =quote= > This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended > solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive > this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy > it. > > As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the > group liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although > the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the > sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will > not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. > =quote= > > I regularly get mails with this kind of legal bable at the end, some > worse threatening me with legal actions if I am not the intended > receipient and do not imidiately delete the mail and forget the > content. > > What makes me wonder is that these messages are always at the end, > when you have read the secret message. If anything it will only make > me alert that this could be secret, and if I am evil, ofcourse I would > not delete the mail. I wonder why if the messages are so important they don't PGP or GPG them. Wouldn't that make more sense for sensitive material?