posted 11-14-2005 06:47 AM                       

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IMPORTANT - ANTI-DISCLAIMER: This email is not and cannot, by its nature, be considered confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. If you have received this message by mistake, it would be ridiculous for me to tell you not to read it or copy it to anyone else. Because, let's face it, if this message reveals the fact that I like shagging goats, or proposes to bury bad news,* or anything else that could embarrass me intensely, that's exactly what you'll do. Who the hell wouldn't? Likewise, it is superfluous for me to claim copyright in the contents, because I own that anyway, even if you print out and/or disseminate this message all over the known universe. I don't know why so many corporate IT managers feel the need to attach a disclaimer to the bottom of every email message saying otherwise. If you don't know either, why not email your corporate lawyers and system administrators and ask them why they insist on contributing so much to the needless waste of bandwidth?

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