Re: Silly Confidentiality Notices

From: Brock Shinen <brock[_at_]frenzellaw.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 14:19:53 -0400

And I believe you increase the risk that your responses in this group will be perceived as legal services, rather than information.

Anyone else think so?

Brock

On 8/1/03 9:10 AM, "Roy Murphy" <murphy[_at_]panix.com> wrote:

> In accordance with your instructions below, I will delete your message
> after typing this reply. I can not represent that I have not read the
> contents of the email since my email reader requires that I scroll
> through the entire message in order to reach the notice inserted at the
> bottom and it also requires that the entire message be copied into a
> reply and then deleted line by line. Furthermore, I can't reasonably
> determine if I am the intended recipient without reading the message. In
> the future, if you have material you need to keep confidential, I
> suggest that you not post it to public mailing lists. I imagine that not
> every member of the list is as scrupulous as myself. Also, please be on
> notice that you can not unilaterally obligate me to reply, or to refrain
> from reading or even bind me to confidentiality by sending me mail,
> inadvertantly or not, and that I shall not so reply in the future
> whether or not your communication is inadvertant or intended. I reserve
> the right to read email sent to me and to make fair uses including, but
> not limited to, exerpting for purposes of comment and criticism and
> reexpressing the non-copyrightable facts contained within in
> interpretive dance for public or private performance or in other fixed
> media.
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:43AM -0500, someone wrote:

>> Please see Confidentiality Notice before reading email.
>> *******************************************************************

> [long content including several quoted messages labouriously deleted
> line by line]

>> *******************************************************************
>> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission has been
>> sent by a lawyer. It may contain information that is confidential,
>> privileged, proprietary, or otherwise legally exempt from
>> disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
>> notified that you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy
>> or disseminate this message, any part of it, or any attachments.
>> If you have received this message in error, please delete this
>> message and any attachments from your system without reading the
>> content and notify the sender immediately of the inadvertent
>> transmission. There is no intent on the part of the sender to waive

>> any privilege, including the attorney-client privilege, that may >> attach to this communication. Thank you for your cooperation.

- Received on Fri Aug 01 2003 - 22:19:53 GMT