Email signature files.

[damian 0]

At work do you have an email signature file? If so it probably contains your phone number, fax number, perhaps location, department, functional title. Does it contain your email address as well? I see so many that do and cant work out why they would put it there.

 

Trivial mush from db.

[klingon 10]

I'm often glad of them so I can pick up the phone without needing to root out their number.

[KlingKlang 1]

Phone number maybe, but email address is silly coz you got the mail right ther.e

[DumbStick 13]

I have all that crap on my official mail. Its ridiculous. Takes up more than half a page.

[damian 0]

sure, phone number is good, division helps, but why the email address?

[Goemon 0]

um...maybe in case the mail gets forwarded to someone else and they want to contact the person listed a few mails down?

 

(I don't like/use those sigs either though.)

[nzlegend 1]

My friend works at CSFB and all his emails have the long disclaimer attached.

 Quote:

This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission.

If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP and each of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to ststate them to be the views of any such entity.

Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this message is indicative only, is subject to change and does not constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted.

Any reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only and subject to our formal written confirmation.

Yes Dear Britain the email address included in other signatures does appear to be superfluous.

[zebedee 1]

That looks pretty standard for that kind of operation.

[Ocean11 0]

"If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient."

 

So what if this blurb is appended to an email that shows some clear criminal intent? Would having that attached to it invalidate it as evidence (I doubt it)? Does all this 'must not' have any legal force whatsoever (I doubt it)? It has recently come to my notice that there are some extremely high ranking, high powered lawyers gracing this forum. I wonder if they would care to venture an opinion. Otherwise Kintaro's opinion will do nicely (at least he has the balls to venture one)

[Error404 0]

I've often wondered the same.

 

Me being a secret and extremely high ranking, high powered lawyer myself, heres some (not exactly "latest") info on the subject:

 

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6263-1039350.html

 

[Curt 1]

Where I used to work they had a ridiculously long thing going on. I swiped mine off and got shouted at for it. Only the official signature was acceptable. Pah!