And maybe it's "corporate policy" - i.e. the suits who pay his salary. Yeah, they're a pain in the ass, but if one of my admins hacked the email system to make his look different to everyone elses he'd be hacking an unemployment line the next day...:-)
Thanks for that Jon. It's true, I'm afraid some of us have to live in the real world. A world where the people who make the policies don't understand (or want to hear about) the implications of those policies. A world where you have to abide with the decisions of the minority. A world where, as Jon said, doing otherwise is likely to land you out of a job. The fact is, companies need to cover themselves legally. They obviously see the need to make it clear on _actually_ confidential emails that they are such, and the evil powers that be say that therefore, all emails are to be considered confidential, and all must have that disclaimer on. They don't care about the McQuary limit (4 lines of 80 characters) as an accepted size of sig, and they really don't care about hacking off a bunch of people of mailing lists their employees subscribe to. Blimey, I didn't want to rant, but there it is... -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) This email was created and sent with Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 NEW: Advogato diary at www.advogato.org/person/riggwelter *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************