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Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Tue, 12 July 2011 21:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages
From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
To: Jorge Contreras <cntreras@gmail.com>
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Hi, Jorge.

> You may want to refer to Section 5.2 of RFC 5378, which addresses this
> issue:
>
> "Each Contributor agrees that any statement in a Contribution, whether
> generated automatically or otherwise, that states or implies that the
> Contribution is confidential or subject to any privilege, can be disregarded
> for all purposes, and will be of no force or effect."

Yes, I'm aware of that.  My point was exactly that: that the
confidentiality statement is pointless.  I'm asking people to try to
get rid of them entirely.

Barry

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