Email Disclaimers: ‘I don’t know who you are and I don’t care’

Written on 9th June 2009                                                                                                              12 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Do you ever get email from consultants, lawyers, and other ‘experts’ with disclaimers in their signatures? I do and seriously dislike them. The usually go something like this:

‘if you are not the intendent recipient of this message please delete it…’

What I’m reading between the lines:

‘I might be billing you 300 an hour but I have no idea which client of mine you are. I’m too stupid, lazy or ignorant to look who I’m emailing so you might be ‘Bart’ instead of ‘Boris’. Oh, and don’t worry, l will bill you both anyway’

I don’t think they intend to send me THAT message, but that is what I read. Am I paranoid? Am I overreacting? Maybe I am.

Do you use a disclaimer on your email? Do you mind them? Tell us why in the comments please.

email, signature, stupid, suck my sig if you don't like my post

12 Comments »

Put fancy signatures in Gmail with Wisestamp

Written on 18th September 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

david petherick, email, gmail, signature, wisestamp

4 Comments »