[TriLUG] [OT] E-mail privacy disclaimers

[Carl Crider]

Someone in here recently said that no matter how nuts the CEO is, you
still have to make them happy. Not a direct quoten but relevant. I was
able to convince a client to include a link to their own "privacy
statement" web page; instead of including useless text. The "legal
dept." said it was good enough.

"This message will self-instruct."

-carl

On 5/13/09, Greg Cox <glcox at pobox.com> wrote:
>> I just let them do it; I can't speak for how legally binding they are, but
>> my
>> guess would be "not at all."  It looks tacky, especially when everyone
>> respomds to the email with their identical disclaimer statements, but is
>> it
>> really worth getting put out about?
>
> At a former job, nobody thought about the fact that alarms from the
> monitoring system went out via email.  Nice twitter-sized messages suddenly
> started taking 4-5 texts to deliver "It's 8pm, hostname is DOWN! -- don't
> retransmit this message without the express written consent of your mom or
> major league shuffleboard, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet objects in mirror may
> be barbara streisand."
>
> The beancounters who got to eat a bunch of expense reports for lines that
> "shouldn't have a text plan" thought it was worth getting cranky
> about.
>
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