From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8563 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2004 16:40:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8549 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2004 16:40:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (209.128.65.135) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2004 16:40:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 2077 invoked by uid 10); 28 Jan 2004 16:40:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 13118 invoked by uid 500); 28 Jan 2004 16:40:09 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sources.redhat.com, fche@redhat.com To: fche@redhat.com Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices References: <200401281628.i0SGSClm017716@toenail.toronto.redhat.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:40:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200401281628.i0SGSClm017716@toenail.toronto.redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-q1/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 fche@redhat.com writes: > > I've noticed several e-mails recently with confidentiality notices > > which we are violating when we archive the message on the web site. > > [...] > > Are you sure that "we are violating" something? The typical verbal > diarrhea warns not to send stuff beyond the intended recipients. > Has someone put forward a plausible interpretation that applies > even when the intended recipient is a public mailing list? (My > impression is that we should expend no effort on issue, and let > the notices speak for themselves about the originator's silliness.) No, I'm not sure. However, the most recent notice I saw said this: **************************************** Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at mailadmin@isofttech.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. **************************************** It was addressed to gcc@gcc.gnu.org. It seems clear that anybody on that mailing list is an addressee. However, we have now put this message on the web: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-01/msg02087.html It seems clear that any random person on the web is not an addressee of the message. Those people are in principle required to notify isofttech.com and destroy the message. It's true that probably no lawsuit could succeed here. But I'm not comfortable with the situation. Ian