legal-sleaze

[Brett Goetz]

I wish I had a way to take it off of my emails, because your right; it
does take up disk space.  It's the required email format installed by
our IT dept.

Brett Dikeman wrote:
> At 2:45 PM -0400 8/4/03, Robert Jobson, Jr. wrote:
>
>>  On the lighter side, I get those
>> emails here alot with the no disclosure disclaimers on the bottom too,
>> and
>> always wondered....Isn't it a bit late to tell them at  the END not to
>> read
>> it if they aren't supposed to?
>
>
> Yes- not to mention, it's entirely, completely, 100% unenforceable from
> what I've read.  You can't just command me to do something- what would
> stop you from putting "you must give me $50"?
>
> I think we should preprocess all postings through a filter that zaps the
> disclaimers(along with the yahoo/msn/whatever advertisements). Maybe
> even emails it back to the recipient a few times, so they get an idea of
> how annoying it is to read.  Perhaps we could also charge them a
> per-message storage+processing fee, since the crap takes up disk space
> in the archives...
>
> Brett


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