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Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 14 July 2011 18:39 UTC

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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:39:17 -0400
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com>, Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages
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--On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:00 -0700 Randall Gellens
<randy@qualcomm.com> wrote:

> At 6:19 PM -0400 7/13/11, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
>>    Content-type: text/noise;
>>    noise-type="bogus-legal-disclaimer", charset=...
> 
> Ooh, I like this proposal.  We can also have noise-types for
> exhortations to not print the email.

If one starts down that path, there is a real possibility for a
semantically-rich environment.  For example, consider a noise
type for flaming, repetitive, responses to a topic on the IETF
list.  One could also very efficiently reflect what I assume was
the intent of a recent observation on the list with
noise-type="hitler" :-(

   john

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