Disclaimer Attachment- ONLY ONCE

[Matt Kettler]

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At 07:33 PM 10/25/2004, Venkata Achanta wrote:
>Sorry may be i have to change the subject line to attract ppl to read my
>message. I apologize if this is an incovenience for some of you.

no inconvenience, but I don't see how this would be possible with MailScanner.

MailScanner's "sign clean messages" feature is intended to have an notice
that a message was virus scanned, not a legal disclaimer. Although many
(use|abuse) it for this purpose.

In the context of it's real purpose, it makes no sense for MS to "only add
it once", as the virus scan would have to apply to each message separately,
so should the signature stating there was a scan.

To change it, Julian would have to add a bit of code to look for the
signature (possibly with added line-wraps and >'s added) before inserting it.

Quite frankly, I hope Julian doesn't add a "only once" feature, in the
interest of encouraging people to not use MS for the purpose of adding
legalese spam to all of their email.

(Just as I wish he'd remove the bounce mis-feature, but he's at least
decided to put a few hoops in before you can enable this dangerous feature,
and I'm thankful for that much.)


> >if someone sends out a e-mail and get a repsonse and if he responds again
> >the disclaimer is getting attached again.if this happens X number of times
> >we end up having disclaimer attached X number of time as well which looks
> >ugly(better than spam though :-)) )

Quite frankly, I feel that bulk-disclaimer-attachers are *worse* than
spammers.

They aren't even selling anything, they're just inserting garbage in email
to cover their hind ends in the event of a  misdirected email by a careless
employees. And quite frankly, I seriously question if the 'this message may
be legally privileged' disclaimers even offer much, if any, useful legal
protection. So not only are they selling nothing, they are also saying
nothing of value, just wasting space on the world's disk drives to keep
some high-level manager happy. Wonderful.

For that matter, re-posters who cannot even wait 6 hours before reposting
the same message with a different subject might be better suited by
exercising a little patience.

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