Re: questions about blocking disclaimers

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org> writes:

> Out of interest I have had long arguments in my workplace about such
> disclaimers, and it has been alleged that EU Data Protection law (as
> applied in the UK at least) pretty much requires that any mail sent
> from a business (including any employees) has to include them. It was
> a hard fight to prevent them being added to all our email, and
> allegedly omitting them is being done at some risk to the company
> directors. I doubt this should change the policy, but it does show
> that the only solution people may have is not to post from their work
> at all, so giving them time to arrange an alternative would some
> reasonable.

I disbelieve that EU law requires you to add anything like "if you are
not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please destroy it."  Those
are the problematic cases for us.

Ian