[OT]: Confidentiality disclosures in list posts (Was: SORT performance - slow?)

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> "Strange, John W"  wrote:
>> If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified
>> that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the
>> information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is
>> STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
>
> You probably already know this, but just to make sure -- you posted
> this to a public list which is automatically replicated to several
> websites freely available to everyone on the planet.

It's irrelevant, since that "STRICTLY PROHIBITED" verbiage is irrelevant,
unenforceable and legally meaningless.  I could post that message on my
personal blog, being not the intended recipient myself, and they would b e
utterly powerless to do anything about it even if they sent it privately to my
personal email inbox.

I don't even know why people bother even putting such nonsense into their
emails, let alone Usenet or mailing-list posts.

--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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