Email signing

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

Well..... None of our lawyers here are IT lawyers however they have been
reading a lot in the legal press from so called IT law experts who are now
saying that you need to at least add reference to the disclaimer at the
beginning of the email. I don't know the details or really care other than
to reduce the flak I am getting. The impression I get is that someone was
taken to court for disclosing confidential info in an email and got off
because they said that they never scrolled down far enough to read the
disclaimer.

Make of that what you will but I still need to find some way of doing this.

Sam



-----Original Message-----
From: Ulysees [mailto:Ulysees at ULYSEES.COM]
Sent: 13 August 2003 18:29
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Email signing


I take it they don't actually deal with the IT area professionally ?
Otherwise they should know that a disclaimer on an email is not legally
binding at all, no matter where you put it, how often or how long it is. The
main reason for using them is as a deterrent or reminder of AUP which in
themselves can carry weight for when staff say that they were "unaware"

Uly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Luxford-Watts" <slwatts at WINCKWORTHS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Email signing


> Thanks so much!
>
> You have no idea of the hell these people are putting me through!
>
> Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Doris [mailto:gerry at DORFAM.CA]
> Sent: 13 August 2003 18:18
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Email signing
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Ok - I work for a legal firm so I guess I should have guessed that
> > this subject would come back to haunt me!
> >
> > Using MS is it possible to:
> >
> > 1. sign all outgoing emails with a default signature (disclaimer)
> > except if a specific string is added to either the end of the
> > subject line or to the email body.
> >
> > 2. Have the email signature at the start of the email body and not
> > the end. I am not sure if you are aware but a lot of lawyers are now
> > saying that a confidentiality disclaimer appended to an email is not
> > legally binding unless you refer to it at the start of the email
> > BEFORE the reader has a chance to read the main text.
> >

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