Re: sprank

[Ulrich Staudinger]

Guys (and especially Judd), what's your problem ... Just accept the 
footer and continue with business as usual. Giving advice is for sure 
not ment by "taking action". 
If you don't like it, ignore it and 
don't take action or whatever, but please don't start a political 
discussion. 

We are in a free world.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Judd Storrs <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> be respected. The language in this boilerplate seems to be a cut and paste
> from a standard template NDA, and dissemination would mean to someone else
> than those that already had access to the information.

It's not the dissemination part I had a question about, the message
was addressed to the list so no problem there. The part that confused
me was:

>> You are hereby notified that ... the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited

The plain meaning of those words seems ridiculous in any context--i.e.
"don't do anything related to this message", so in my mind it must
have some sort legal meaning different than the plain English meanings
of the words when placed in that order. It could have been some sort
of bizarre Mossad entrapment scheme for all I know. I wanted that part
clarified, that's all. Personally, I don't care that he's leaking
system configuration information about computers installed at a
defense contractor--that's his problem not mine. If he hadn't
plastered his company name all over the place no-one would be the
wiser.


--judd

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Ulrich B. Staudinger