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A window into the soul of your correspondent (or, where harnessed to the [[great steampunk machine]] of a multinational corporation, that | {{g}}A window into the soul of your correspondent (or, where harnessed to the [[great steampunk machine]] of a multinational corporation, that entity’s blackened soul). An extract of plain text, appended to every outbound communication, canvassing any [[one or more]] of the following subjects: | ||
*Its [[confidentiality]] | |||
*Its [[copyright]] | |||
*Its [[privilege]] (despite its protestations, misdirected emails will rarely be legally privileged) | |||
*Its potential inaccuracy | |||
*Its epidemiological virulence; | |||
*The receiver’s moral duty to destroy it if sent in error. | |||
An email disclaimer will also wax lengthily about what it is ''not'': | |||
**Professional advice; | |||
**An offer or solicitation of an offer — and IN ANY CASE NOT TO RESIDENTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE; | |||
**A recommendation to do anything or not do anything (Stop and think about this juicy [[double negative]] for a while: “We are ''not'' telling you ''not'' to do anything”.) | |||
**Professional advice | |||
**An offer or solicitation of an offer | |||
**A recommendation to do anything or not do anything (Stop and think about this juicy [[double negative]] for a while: “We are not telling you not to do anything”.) | |||
All of this served up in the certain knowledge no person having enough adult literacy to comprehend an email disclaimer would — or even could — be dim-witted enough to ever read it, much less care about what it says. | |||
Which begs the question: what do we think we are achieving with an email disclaimer? Which part of the sky would fall upon our heads were it not there? | |||
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