From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-10 10:15:09
"Hughes, James" <jhughes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Hughes, James wrote:
>> > This message (including any attachments) contains
>> confidential and/or
>> > proprietary information intended only for the addressee.
>> > Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or
>> reliance on the
>> > contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may
>> constitute
>> > a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient, please
>> > notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail,
>> and delete
>> > the message from your system. If you have any questions about this
>> > e-mail please notify the sender immediately.
>>
>> such text should definitely be avoided on each mailing list.
>> Don't find any excuses such that your MTA adds this, just
>> *don't* send such mails!
>>
>> I'm now in big trouble because of this. A friend of me who
>> isn't subscribed to this list read parts of this email (he
>> stood behind me). What now? Should I beat him down in the
>> hope he forgets about it, should I send you his name and
>> address so you can sue him?
>>
>> To all: Please ignore all such postings. Even better, ask the
>> list master to unsubscribe such persons!
>>
>> PS: Could someone please extent
>> http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm to cover this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jens
>
> I have had this discussion with other mailing lists. It is a breach of
> my working contract to remove any added signature lines and can result
> in my employment being terminated. I have stated to our IT depertment
> that this is an issue, and they say there is nothing they can do. You
> are quite welcome to write to them to say how stupid it is (I already
> know, but I cannot do anything about it), and also to Danaher's IT
> support, the company that owns the company I work for and runs the IT
> systems.
One of the other mailing lists I'm on automatically removes such trailers if
the person sending writes "--LongSig" on a line on its own --- everything
after the --LongSig identifier is removed. Maybe such a facility could be
added to the boost mail server.
Anthony
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