On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Sergei Steshenko
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> Subject: RE: SOURCE FILES FOR WIN 7 X64
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> Jordi,
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>> If the footers are meaningless in the US, then why are US companies
>> adding them?
>
> We have to have them here (on new messages). I think it is because:
>
> 1. Something bad happened once.
> 2. The IT department has been told to DO SOMETHING about it.
> 3. It's easy and mindless to set up Microsoft Exchange to add footers.
> 4. Thus the IT department can be seen to be DOING SOMETHING.
> 5. If it doesn't have any effect, nobody has told them (and they aren't
> asking, in case they might actually have to do something difficult).
> 6. And anyway, that's a legal department problem. The legal department
> doesn't care (nobody has asked them to, and it doesn't cost them
> anything).
> 7. And besides, it might actually keep someone from misusing data they
> aren't entitled to. You never know.
>
> I manually remove them unless I'm actually sending sensitive data to
> someone, though I'm not supposed to.
>
> Regards,
> Allen
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And how about using an outside work Email account ?
Regards,
Sergei.
Could be fine, but may be inappropriate, frowned upon, or even actively blocked depending on your worksite. While I can access private email from work, I am actively discouraged from using it for 'work related communications' and can be reprimanded for doing so. Depending on whether this person's interest in Octave is personal or work related (seems to be the latter in this case), then use of a work email address would be appropriate, and possibly even the only acceptable option from his employer's perspective. Not that that makes the legal disclaimer any more than fluff to the majority of readers. I actually think it would have been funny for the sender to have received a few thousand replies as people actual followed the instructions at the bottom.
nickj