on confidential statements - Re: New Intro to RDF

I think you are probably endangering the intellectual property of  
your company
by adding such signatures to mails that are clearly public. I have just
followed a course on this issue at Sun, and the point made very  
clearly was
that mislabeling documents as confidential that are public could be even
more dangerous as not labeling confidential documents. By mislabeling  
public
documents you undermine the meaning of the word 'confidential' in  
your company,
and so open the door for people to start reading all your  
'confidential' labeled
documents.

Clearly this list is public, and the contents are indexed and  
searchable. Furthermore
the content of your mail has nothing that you could possibly claim as  
owning, so
the claim in your signature could be interpreted as possible theft as  
you seem
to be suggesting that you can take publicly knowable information and  
place
it in your private domain.

Henry


On 5 Oct 2005, at 16:54, Craig Webster wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>>> DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is confidential and should not be used by  
>>> anyone
>>> who is
>>> not the original intended recipient.
>>>
>>
>> Who was the unique intended recipient of your email?  Was everyone  
>> else
>> on the mail list supposed to shred their copy of the email?  :)
>>
>
> Just to be a smart-arse...
>
> If we consider the membership of the mailing list itself as an
> entity which can recieve email then this disclaimer makes sense.
>
> Yours,
> Craig
> -- 
> Craig Webster | web: http://xeriom.net/
> Xeriom.NET    | tel: +44 (0)131 516 8595
>
>

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