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 ou

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.