E-mail legal disclaimers (was RE: SCO/Linux/Filepro consultant needed)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting GCC Consulting (Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:14:22 -0500):

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>
> Now for the rest of the boiler plate, I don't know how legal it is to
> disseminate a document once you have been notified.  Be interesting case
> law.

What about this for case law?

What happens when you tell the sender that you are, in fact, not the
"intended recipient", and they continue sending confidential (yes, in
this case, it really is confidential) information to your e-mail box?

Specifically, the domain "hvcomputers.com" (with a terminal "s") is a
company in the Dominican Republic.  The domain "hvcomputer.com" (without
the terminal "s") is Laura's company.  Someone entered the wrong domain
name, leaving off the "s", on some form somewhere, causing monthly
financial information (account statements, with account numbers) to be
sent to the wrong address.

I informed the senders, as well as the apparently-intended recipient of
the typo.  They "fixed" the mailings by sending them to both addresses.
I informed them again.  Repeat over the course of several mailings of
this "confidential" information.

I eventually informed them that the continued mailings to the domain
which they have been repeatedly told was incorrect must mean that they
have conceded that the information is, in fact, not "confidential", and
that I may, at my discretion, repost the information on public web space.
It continues to come to the hvcomputer.com address, as well as to the
apparently-correct hvcomputers.com address.

I haven't yet had the nerve to actually publicly post the information, but
as you say, it would be "interesting case law".

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