Enjablog

Went with Ian and his parents to see An Inconvenient Truth yesterday. Very well done. I would highly recommend it to people who enjoy living on this planet. If you don’t care or have some other kind of exit strategy planned, then good luck with that. But for everyone else, make the time to go see this.

The information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of those who are in a confidential relationship with the author. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or printing of this communication is strictly prohibited! If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone [blah blah blah] or by email [blah blah blah].

You know, if you’re going to attach that as your sig file, maybe you shouldn’t go around forwarding spam.

Just because you call it “confidential” does not make it actually confidential. If it actually were confidential, you should not be emailing that at all. It would be against the law and you would be strictly prohibited! Ok, sorry. That sentence got away from me. The stupid exclamation mark in the middle of the sig just pisses me off.

This gets added to the end of emails that request people to forward the email to 10 people they know in the next 15 minutes!!11!!!one!! It gets added to the end of emails begging us to distribute information to help find non-existent children lost in the internet 10 years ago. It gets added to emails sending out announcements about your exciting family with wonderful news about which you want *everyone* to know.

Admittedly, I am required to put a similar paragraph at the end of my sig file for work. BUT the difference is that they talk about business sensitive/proprietary information and do not use the word “confidential” like it’s going out of style. And, in the case of anything that could be claimed as intellectual property, it could actually be necessary to have something like that tacked onto the email. I’m not saying that that’s binding in any way, because I’m doubtful that it is. It’s just actually applicable.

The other huge difference? I don’t use my work email address to send out crap! I also don’t use my personal email to send out crap, but that’s clearly beside the point.

I am appalled that there are still people out there who do not understand how to not be dumb. I’m not surprised, just appalled.

Don’t forward me crap.

Don’t leave a dozen generations of people’s forwarded information leading into this *very important* document.

Don’t leave “>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>” in front of every line because the 50 people before you didn’t understand how to forward an email either.

And for the people sending this crap out anyway? You don’t need the stupid sig file. No one cares, no one reads it, and it means nothing. You hear me? NOTHING.

Don’t be dumb.