--On 11 April 2007 14:43:27 +0100 Drav Sloan <holbs@???> wrote:
> Simon Faulkner wrote:
>>> Yes. In germany we have to add the disclaimer to any outgoing message
:-(
Of course, this is not a "disclaimer". It's an imprint (German
"impressum"), which is a kind of identifier.
>> Are you *sure*?
>>
>> Many people think that we have to do that in the UK now but if you read
>> carefully you don't actually *have* to.
>
> Read where? Where is the legislation online? I tried looking back in
> January, only to find it was not online at that time.
>
> Regards
>
> Drav.
It says that UK business email has to contain company details. I doubt
that Exim mailing list traffic qualifies as business email. It might if you
tried to recruit a postmaster through the list, or offered a bounty for a
bug-fix or a new feature.
On 14 January, I posted this on the matter:
The text of the 1985 act isn't available online, but the text of section
351 (which now applies to emails -
<
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20063429.htm>) has been posted to the
uk-mail-managers
mailing list:
> 351 Particulars in correspondence etc
> (1) Every company shall have the following particulars mentioned in
> legible characters in all business letters, websites and order forms of
> the company, that is to say-
> (a) the company's place of registration and the number with which it
> is registered,
> (b) the address of its registered office,
> (c) in the case of an investment company (as defined in section
> 266), the fact that it is such a company, and
> (d) in the case of a limited company exempt from the obligation to
> use the word "limited" as part of its name [under section 30 or a
> community interest company which is not a public company], the fact that
> it is a limited company.
--
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148
