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Who do people put crap like this in their emails?
I find it sad that people are not prepared to take responsibility for their own actions and are seemingly always ready to blame some one else for their lack of common sense.
McDonald's chose to scald thousands of its customers because it thought that 185 degree coffee tasted a bit better. Most restaurants make do with 165 degree coffee and a lot smaller legal department.
some of whom were driving when burned
Ermmm, one assumes they were drinking coffee whilst driving :o
Now that has got to be an infringement of the law in most countries :)
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.
1. There is nothing to stop you "disseminating, distributing or copying" the FILES. The text only limits the email, and the first part of the text specifically separates the "email and any files transmitted with it".
2. Nothing to stop you printing, or faxing, or reading out on the phone. That is because once transmitted into any form other than email it is no longer an email, but just represents the information which was previously within the email.
3. Impossible clause by requiring immediate notification and deletion. The only way an immediate notification could be sent is if the system sent it automatically, and without delaying for user prompt. Perhaps, just to be sure, we should automatically delete and notify senders of all messages with such a deletion clause.
4. Having immediately deleted the email, how do you know who the sender is? Unless, of course, you have copied some part of the email (the sender). In that case we can assume that copying parts of the email is permitted despite the fact that the email as a whole has had the limitation requested.
5. I don't have much knowledge of law, but I believe that for me to be bound by such a contract I have to agree to be bound as such. The reader of this post must immediately send me $1000. Did that bind you? If not, then why should reading an instruction within an email. The only way I can see that this disclaimer could carry any weight is if it said "This is a confidential message etc blah blah, if you accept these terms and are the right guy then click here [........]
