Annual tirade #422

Email disclaimers. Do not use. Bad idea. Your company looks foolish, not professional.

If you are an exception, you are a lawyer.

If you send one to a mailing list, it looks particularly stupid to have a "you must immediately destroy this information and report it to me" disclaimer.

If you are in sales, having "The statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail do not necessarily represent those of $COMPANY" at the bottom of your message looks really foolish. Yes, I mean you.

If your company is doing this, find out why. Persuade the person who made this decision to work for a competitor. Your company will prosper.

Annual tirade #422

Email disclaimers. Do not use. Bad idea. Your company looks foolish, not professional.

If you are an exception, you are a lawyer.

If you send one to a mailing list, it looks particularly stupid to have a "you must immediately destroy this information and report it to me" disclaimer.

If you are in sales, having "The statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail do not necessarily represent those of $COMPANY" at the bottom of your message looks really foolish. Yes, I mean you.

If your company is doing this, find out why. Persuade the person who made this decision to work for a competitor. Your company will prosper.

Followup to annual tirade #422

I asked the salescritter who provoked my tirade about the email disclaimer [say it with me: stupid!] at the bottom of his message.

An excerpt from his response:

Might be hard to make it stick on court, but that's just my opinion and does not necessarily represent the opinion of $COMPANY.

Followup to annual tirade #422

I asked the salescritter who provoked my tirade about the email disclaimer [say it with me: stupid!] at the bottom of his message.

An excerpt from his response:

Might be hard to make it stick on court, but that's just my opinion and does not necessarily represent the opinion of $COMPANY.

Everybody's doing the psychogram!

from, oh, elizabear.


110/200, 103/200. Does it matter which?

Everybody's doing the psychogram!

from, oh, elizabear.


110/200, 103/200. Does it matter which?