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I always giggle when I see those.

Especially the part about how "if you are not the intended recipient, you are ordered to destroy all copies of this message."

It's my computer. You sent the bad message. You're in no position to "order" me to do anything.

I suspect they're mandated by self-important Lower Middle Manager of the Year Award nominees, not actual legal departments. The sort of people who never do anything but push papers around, yet put a bunch of meaningless initials after their name in e-mail signatures because they went to a conference.



> Especially the part about how "if you are not the intended recipient, you are ordered to destroy all copies of this message." It's my computer. You sent the bad message. You're in no position to "order" me to do anything.

Best case scenario, someone listens and destroys the message.

Worst case scenario, the company is no worse off than if they hadn't included the disclaimer.

Makes sense from my perspective.


And cargo-culting.

Most email templates are set up from old instructions hanging around confluence or a wiki. And they are rarely, if ever, actually vetted by legal.

It 'feels' good, so it stays.




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