[TriLUG] [OT] E-mail privacy disclaimers

[Douglas R. Taber]

Shawn Hood wrote:
> All,
>
> Just curious if anyone has had to fight evil corporate powers that
> want to include an e-mail privacy/confidentiality disclaimer/statement
> in e-mails.  It has always seemed wasteful and perhaps pointless to
> me.  I know this is no legal forum, but perhaps someone on the list
> has compiled some research to fight this kind of effort?  Save the
> bandwidth and storage for something more meaningful!  ;)
>
>
>   

As a common sense approach, I don't think you put a privacy disclaimer 
on something transmitted in plain text any more than you can put 
"confidential" on a billboard.