Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.

Sun Sep 6 16:46:37 UTC 2015

On 9/4/2015 6:31 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
>
> I, for one, feel your pain in this matter.  When I was a consultant in 
> The Bad Ol' Days, I had so many telephone numbers where I *could* be 
> that my .sig would be a run-on one as well.  As a compromise, I had my 
> cell number and a hyperlink to a Web site page with the full monte.
>
> That was before I joined NANOG, so I never tested the tolerance of the 
> people here with that solution.
>
> When I was employed as a full-timer (including now) my "work" mail has 
> the same sort of crap.  One option you might want to consider is to 
> use a personal e-mail account for places like NANOG with the 
> single-line disclaimer "Views expressed herein may not be my 
> employer's view"
>
Maybe people could adopt an unofficial-official end-of-signature flag.  
Then you could have procmail strip everything after the flag:
     --
     This is my signature
     My phone number goes here
     I like dogs
     -- end of signature --
     Everything below here and to the right of here was inserted by my 
mailserver, which is run by lawyers who don't understand you can't 
enforce contracts through emails to public mailing lists. Please delete 
if you're not the intended recipient.

Of course, when you route around something like this it usually comes 
back 10 fold, but maybe if it became worthless they might do things the 
right way and put stuff like this in email headers.

X-Optional-Flags:  Delete-if-not-intended-recipient, 
might-contain-secret-company-information-we-didn't-bother-to-encrypt

Then let the email clients try to work out what that means.