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Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org> Wed, 13 July 2011 22:49 UTC

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:49:01 -0700
From: Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org>
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To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages
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On 07/13/2011 03:19 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38 -0700 Marc Petit-Huguenin
> <petithug@acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be
>> standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic
>> processing easier so receivers of this kind of notice
>> (mailing-list or other) can respect the wishes of the sender.
>> ...
> 
> What did you have in mind?  Something like
> 
>   Content-type: text/legal-noise; charset=...
> 
> or perhaps
> 
>   Content-type: text/noise; noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer",
> charset=...
> 
> :-(
> 

No, I was serious.  I think that the best response to this kind of stuff is to
do what they ask to the letter.  If we can convince the senders that annotating
their notice with an header will permit us to obey their request, everybody wins.

- -- 
Marc Petit-Huguenin
Personal email: marc@petit-huguenin.org
Professional email: petithug@acm.org
Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org
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