OT: sort of... SCO

[Fairlight]

You really should have your lawyers get in touch with their elementary
logic professors.

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Doug Luurs shouted:
> -- These commodities/technical data are controlled under the United
> States Export Regulations and may not be exported to a foreign person,
> either in the U.S. or abroad, without the proper authorization of the
> U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce. Please
> contact Borisch Manufacturing Corporation for commodity classification
> and jurisdiction.

Borisch's problem, not the recipient's.

> This E-mail, including any attachments, may contain confidential
> information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom
> it is addressed.  If you received this E-mail in error, please notify

Point of logic: 

If it was intended soley for use by the individual to whom it was
addressed, and it got delivered, it couldn't possibly be received in error.

> the sender, do not disclose its contents to others, and delete it
> from your system.  Any other use of this E-mail and/or attachments
> is prohibited.  

"You sent it, unsolicited.  Not my problem and I'll do what I damned
well please with it."  That's be my response.  Same as when I receive
unsolicited crap via the USPS.  The sender is not in a position to prohibit
anything without prior agreement, whether they're under that illusion or
not.  There's no binding agreement.  AFAIK, it's FUD fearmongering.

> This message is not meant to constitute an electronic signature or intent
> to contract electronically.

Just as well, as any lawyer should know that's not even -possible-, as
there's no meeting of the minds and one cannot be obligated to an agreement
without being a prior party to it.

How much do people that devise these idiotically phrased, unenforceable
boilerplates get paid to be redundantly incompetent?  Whatever the sum is,
feel free to send what's getting wasted my way, eh?  IANAL--thank
goodness--but these folks appear to be out to lunch.

It's not personal, Doug...I think you're cool.  Might be time to think
about using Gmail or the like, however.  Your boilerplate took 46% of the
message space to say things that aren't even applicable, nor enforceable.
More, if I discount the headers (pretty sure mutt counts the displayed
headers as part of the percentage)--in which case it was actually over 50%.

That's just sad.

mark->
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