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Re: silly legal boilerplate, was Regarding RIM's recent IPR disclosures

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Fri, 20 November 2009 19:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: silly legal boilerplate, was Regarding RIM's recent IPR disclosures
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> Unfortunately, many corporate email systems, including at a former
> employer of mine, automatically add these to every outgoing email, and
> individual employees have no control over it nor any way to change the
> corporate policy. Which is one of the reasons why I use non-work email
> for my IETF work.

Oh, yes, we know.  But, of course, if someone's employer insists on doing 
something silly, that's their problem, not ours.

R's,
John

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