Your email’s legal disclaimer is meaningless

And before you disagree, examine all paper mail coming from your company to see if it includes the same disclaimer…

- Ned “hostile witness” Pyle

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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
** Note: The preceeding comment should be taken with a grain of salt, and disregarded in most cases.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I have some email threads that are a few weeks of back and forth between two vendors using those taglines - a hundred pages of bullcrap. :-D
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I'm no lawyer, but I depending on the content, sender and receiver I think there might be circumstances it is a requirement or - at least - might be helpful for clarity and preventing misunderstandings. Also, I found this: "In the US, companies in the healthcare industry and in financial services are often required by law to include certain disclaimers in their emails. Also, under IRS regulations, people who provide tax advice are required to use an email disclaimer." legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/are-email-disclaimers-legally-binding.aspx
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April 13, 2011

Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Notice in those websites that talk about this, no one can ever actually point to a specific law... It's like those customers that tell me Sarbanes-Oxley requires them to do X. I've read that law end to end 5 times and it is about as inspecific as a congressman can make it. And that's pretty inspecific. :) Thanks for the feedback Michel.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Ha! Good zing. :-D
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Whenever there is a "need" there is a domain name taken... www.emaildisclaimers.com/Index.htm Providing samples for you to slap into your outgoing email, etc.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
OMG that is awesome. Everyday I come across a website that makes me wonder what I am doing sitting in some cubicle when I could be separating people from their dough through google adwords...