- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:36:13 +0200
- To: SWIG <semantic-web@w3.org>, "Hammond, Tony" <T.Hammond@nature.com>
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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