Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Thu, 14 July 2011 01:48 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
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Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages
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>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.

That respect would of course be demonstrated by rejecting or
discarding the mail unread, to avoid any possibility that it could
fall into the wrong hands.

R's,
John

PS: Perhaps I should propose a revised RFC 5617 adding dkim=confidential.