Quoth Roger Burton West on Sat, May 13, 2000:
> On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 04:56:47PM +0300, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> >Quoth Jon Baldassari on Sat, May 13, 2000:
> >> can exim add a disclaimer to outbound emails?
> >Is this the time to add it to the FAQ?
>
> I think so. Something along the lines of:
>
> - this is not the MTA's job
> - the MTA is therefore not equipped to do it
> (stuff about MIME and so on)
Even if you solve issues of MIME handling, several other issues
remain:
* What if the message contains only binary MIME parts?
* What if the message contains one perl script which does not
represent views of the company, nor does it compile?
* What if the message is cryptographically signed? Should the
disclaimer invalidate the signature? This kind of thing can
probably happen of you use PGP/MIME or that signature in the
header, whatever it's called.
* Or encrypted? Even if you do add the disclaimer after the
encrypted part, many decrypting MUAs delete everything except
the encrypted part.
> - in any case this is legally dodgy, as the user has no means of consent,
> and it makes you liable for any third-party content going through you
Also think about technical side of the Force. Not everything
works always as expected.
* False negatives: "Ah, this guy usually says he does not
represent their views, but now he doesn't have the
disclaimer".
* False positives "This official announcement does not
represent our views, oh no".
Vadik.
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