[121086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sun Jan 10 00:51:29 2010
Date: 10 Jan 2010 00:50:16 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <martin@theicelandguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <d99aaed41001091805p7281ff8j9db08625fcd29559@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The point is that rather than try to enforce agreements individually,
> automatically slapping the notices on is not so unreasonable all
> considered.
>
> While it may be annoying, its not baseless. It certaintly isn't
> useless in discovery.
Once again, I would be most interested in any statute or case law to
support this claim. I've been involved in a lot of discovery in a lot of
cases over the years, and I cannot remember a single instance where a
boilerplate confidentiality notice was even noted, much less enforced.
As I said:
> 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
