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

Dovid Bender dovid at telecurve.com
Wed Sep 9 13:36:39 UTC 2015


I am trying to understand why the legal babble bothers anyone. Does it give you a nervous twitch? Remind you why you hate legal? It's just text at the bottom of your email.

Regards,

Dovid

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon at cox.net>
Sender: "NANOG" <nanog-bounces at nanog.org>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 03:56:30 
To: <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.

On 9/8/2015 03:31, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:14:02PM +0000, Connor Wilkins wrote:
>> Honestly.. the best method is to not let it bug you anymore. It's
>> only a seething issue to you because you let it be.
>
> Curiously enough, the same thing was said about spam 30-ish years ago.
> The "ignore it and maybe it will go away" approach did not yield
> satisfactory results.
>
> These "disclaimers" are stupid and abusive.  They have no place in
> *any* email traffic, and most certainly not in a professional forum.
> And it is unreasonable to expect the recipients of the demands and
> threats they embody to silently tolerate them ad infinitum.

Exactly so.
JHD


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