Re: SOURCE FILES FOR WIN 7 X64

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Thomas Weber wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:14:33AM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> By emailing a public mail-list you've effectively forwarded your email
>> to many (thousands? ... millions?) of people, which appears to
>> indicate you've violated the postscript/footer at the end of your
>> email.
>> 
>>      http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/46040
>> 
>>      
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/FW-SOURCE-FILES-FOR-WIN-7-X64-tt4648769.html
>> 
>>      
>> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2013-January/056469.html
>> 
>> In any event, I suggest you remove the "CONFIDENTIAL" postscript from
>> your email.  Otherwise its nefarious tone may discourage some
>> otherwise helpful individuals from responding .... as a response will
>> result in your message being forwarded again to a large number of
>> people.
> 
> I'm getting tired of these comments on this list, really. I'm subscribed
> to over a dozen mailing list and the Octave lists are the only ones
> where this issue comes up at all.
> 
> Will you people please understand that the sender of such emails have
> exactly zero control over the footers? They might be added by the
> outgoing mail server automatically. 
> For the occasional value of a "confidential" footer, just read 
> http://www.out-law.com/page-5536
> 
> When sending emails from the account of my (now previous) employer, my
> signature had 10 lines -- and every single line of them was required by
> law! Yes, by law, not the company lawyers.
> 
> If you understand German, just have a look at 
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signatur_(E-Mails_im_Gesch%C3%A4ftsverkehr)#Inhalt_bzw._Pflichtangaben_in_der_Signatur
> 
> So, to summarize:
> 1) It's entirely pointless to educate people about legal footers - they
> will rarely have a chance to change them.
> 2) The times when a footer had at most 5 lines are long over.
> 
>       Thomas

Thomas,

As far as you know, do the footers carry any legal burden for those who receive 
them?  In Germany or otherwise?

Ben