[121070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Jan 9 20:07:37 2010
Date: 10 Jan 2010 01:07:06 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <d99aaed41001091527k10e9939cn2f559102f7e7f5e7@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for each
> communication that should be covered by the NDA.
I can believe that such NDAs may exist, but I'm pretty sure I didn't
sign one as a condition of subscribing to nanog. In reality,
boilerplate confidentiality notices merely document the fact that a
mail system is in the grip of the clueless and/or confused.
R's,
John
> As much as everyone would like to believe these are wothless, they
> are not. Applying them globally to your email protects your legal
> rights.
I would be most interested in any case or statute law supporting this
utterly implausible assertion. I'm aware that there is a rule among
attorneys that they're not allowed to use material faxed from one to
another by mistake, but since this isn't fax and we're not lawyers, it
doesn't apply.
