Quite the contrary. That footer has
no place in an open source world. We are free to ignore it only at the
pleasure of the corporate lawyers on the other end of the email.
As JWE pointed out there are other,
unencumbered email services available at no cost that would fit better on
public mailing lists.
I appreciate the discussion…even though
it is off the subject of the list.
Mic Miller
From: Ulrich
Staudinger [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:58
AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: sprank
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
--
Kind regards,
Ulrich B. Staudinger