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Don't get me started on stupid quasi-legal disclaimers!

• pornel 16y ago
  I retaliate with this: > By accepting this e-mail you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies (”BOGUS AGREEMENTS”) that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer. And this is even better: http://www.andrews-and-arnold.ltd.uk/inboundemailterms.html http://www.andrews-and-arnold.ltd.uk/inboundemailterms.html
• gvb 16y ago
  OK, I have to tell a war story. Many years ago (it was on a VAX system), Someone In Authority decided that we needed a "legal" disclaimer tacked onto all of our emails. The system administrator put this into the VAX mail system. Grrrrr! I noticed that the script the sysadmin used was clever enough to not add a second disclaimer if one was already present in the email. OK, he must be doing a check, but I also noticed that it wasn't an exact check, because it still worked if the disclaimer got line wrapped differently (IIRC). A bunch of emails to myself later, I had determined what the keywords were and put a disclaimer in my .sig that had those keywords. It was half the length and, IMHO, made more sense than the original. P.S. To the best of my knowledge, that quasi legal disclaimer never saved the company from any lawsuit or legal expense, but it cost them 4 hours of my time, plus a lot of other engineers' time as they groused about it in the hall.