in Rant, X-Geek

Email disclaimers

Email disclaimers: is there anything more ridiculous? By sending me an email with your “legal terms” stuck to the bottom, somehow that makes me bound by law to obey them? Whose law? What jurisdiction?

And another thing: what is your “property” doing in my inbox? You sent me the email: I didn’t ask for it! Even the U.S. Postal Service (and Federal Law) says that if someone mails you something by mistake, you are legally allowed to keep it.

Email disclaimers are just another example of how most lawyers are helplessly clueless about matters of technology. Read more perspectives at Slate and this site, too. Help put an end to this ridiculous clogging of the Internet tubes.

  1. By reading this you are obligated to send $10,000 in small bills 🙂

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