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Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> Tue, 12 July 2011 23:12 UTC

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To: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
From: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages
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Barry,

I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV or the net, so I likely 
don't understand the situation.  As a point of possibly interesting 
information, once upon a time, at a training session held by a lawyer 
regarding how to protect confidential information, we were admonished 
not to slap a "confidential" label on anything automatically or 
without consideration, because, we were warned, doing so can cause 
the label to lose meaning for everything.  In other words, if we 
labelled everything "confidential," then we were really saying 
nothing was confidential.

Ever since, I've wondered if these notices were set up by someone who 
is a lawyer and does understand the situation, or if they were set up 
by someone who saw others do it, or heard that this sort of thing was 
needed.

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Randall Gellens
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