On Mon, August 18, 2014 5:50 am, Toralf Lund wrote:
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I'm sorry if that offends anyone, the the BS nature of e-mail footers like this one always offends my intelligence. As a recipient of e-mail I didn't give my consent to be obliged to anything. whatever you sent me was at your sole discretion. You want any obligations from the recipient of your message, you should contact the recipient first and get him agree to be obliged to anything you request.
Who is the idiot lawyer who wrote it? He shouldn't even have layer degree for incompetence! Even I, not lawyer, do understand that you can not make the person obliged to do or not do anything by unilaterally doing something (sending that person e-mail with idiotic footer).
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++