Facebook and Skype and Plugins

[David Woolley]

John Moore 3rd wrote:
> David Woolley wrote:
> 
>> Gets my vote.  I'd also suggest bouncing any posting that contains the
>> words "email", "intended" and "confidential" within a couple of lines of
>> each other.
> 
> I understand the frustration; but without employing Google Labs
> technology I know of no practical method for discerning the contents of
> an Email Post prior to it's appearance on the List.  :-D

Most mailing list software already has a similar capability, although it 
is generally restricted to matching one line, and typically only looks 
at the first few lines.  It's used to catch people who post list 
commands to the list itself, so called Administrivia, and redirect it to 
the moderator.  It probably cannot be done with existing software, but 
it is not as big a step as you suggest! (Actually the legal notice often 
is one, very long line.)

(I suspect one of the reasons for the popularity of IM is that email has 
lost its spontaneity because it is being treated as formal business mail 
and thus leading to such things as legal notices.  Just wait for the 
lawyers to realise this!)

-- 
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.