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Missing bit at the end of the original message: "This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privilege
by ez77 16y ago
Missing bit at the end of the original message:
"This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message."
It is amusing that these stern words, particularly regarding distribution, never seem to apply to the sender.
- thenduks 16y agoThat's the footer of Scott's email, not Steve's (Steve's is 'Sent from my iPhone' -- he knows any of his email replies could end up online, of course). He's allowed to share his own correspondence if he wants :)
- jsdalton 16y agoI think ez77 is pointing out the irony that Scott just published Steve's email response for the entire universe to see, but the footer message on his original email indicates Scott would be none too pleased if Steve did the same to him.
- slantyyz 16y agoThat footer is one of those "If you do this in an email, I hate you" bits from the Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email
- ez77 16y agoThat's what I meant, indeed. If you unilaterally demand to keep things confidential and undistributed, it would seem consistent to do the same. On the other hand, I realize Jobs is fully aware that most of his replies will be published.
- zck 16y ago>It is amusing that these stern words, particularly regarding distribution, never seem to apply to the sender. Of course, they never apply to the recipient either, absent further contracts or social pressure. You can put whatever you want in your signature; it doesn't make that able to be enforced.
- blogimus 16y agoWhat might be important which I've observed is that no one of importance seems to read signature disclaimers. Or at least they didn't in my case. As a grunt programmer while working for one large defense contractor some years ago, I put something similar to the following, embedded in a paragraph of mind-numbing boilerplate and no one up the food chain seemed to notice. If you are not the intended recipient, you need not do anything. Men in black will come to erase your memory. Have a good day.
- Radix 16y agoIt's a legal thing. He mentioned his software was for the healthcare field. He has to, or chooses to, end all emails like that because it's common to the field.