From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] __attribute__ ((packed)) doesn't work
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602221129.k1MBT60d024646@guild.plethora.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:24:55 +0100." <43FC4A07.3070704@zurich.ibm.com>
In message <43FC4A07.3070704@zurich.ibm.com>, Dirk Husemann writes:
>could you leave this part of the signature out? sending something to a
>public mailing list cannot be considered confidential and some companies
>have rather strict rules about receiving unsolicited confidential
>material...
The problem here is conflicting legal standards. There are sound legal
reasons to absolutely require that ALL outgoing mail have that disclaimer
in some countries. I know, it sounds dumb. "The law is an ass."
Both companies are making rational decisions given the variety of atrociously
stupid laws and court decisions on such issues.
-s
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-22 11:18 Siegmund, Thomas
2006-02-22 11:25 ` Dirk Husemann
2006-02-22 11:32 ` Peter Seebach [this message]
2006-02-22 12:04 ` Andrew Lunn
2006-02-22 23:25 ` [ECOS] My petty complaint about your signature Brett Delmage
2006-02-22 12:42 AW: [ECOS] __attribute__ ((packed)) doesn't work Siegmund, Thomas
2006-02-22 14:49 ` Andrew Lunn
2006-02-22 15:05 AW: " Siegmund, Thomas
2006-02-22 15:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2006-02-23 15:27 AW: " Siegmund, Thomas
2006-03-02 18:41 ` Andrew Lunn
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