[145431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Telus mail server admin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Oct 8 01:59:57 2011
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:58:02 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111008045809.81449.qmail@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> That's nice for you, but some of us are stuck with a corporate policy
>> that requires us to use such disclaimers, or face disciplinary actions.
>
> Not to seem unsympathetic or anything, but it's not my problem if your
> management are idiots.
>
> Sometimes when I get a message with particularly obnoxious boilerplate
> threats I write back and tell them that I'm unable to answer their
> question since I don't accept their purported contract. And, of
> course, "just ignore the boilerplate" is out of the question, since if
> they don't have authority to remove the threat, they surely don't have
> authority to waive it.
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