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Adrian Midgley wrote:
"May be a criminal offence" - is that lawyer speak for "isn't a criminal offence, but you don't know that" ?IANAL but it is probably actionable under civil law, at least in some circumstances. At present.
So not a criminal offence then if it is civil law ;) Probably copyright, and other abuses might be grounds, but you can't send someone a contract with a document and expect them to be bound, contract law doesn't work that way, you have to agree to a contract to be bound by it (with various caveats like not being under duress).
It is no substitute for taking reasonable care, so choice of mail clients should be careful for those dealing with confidential material.
My MTA (in RFC infringing fashion - oops) rips out most "mailer" tags from mail headers (in and out), so what do you use? And what do you like to see in ensuring addressing is accurate? I find Netscape autocomplete is quite good, but with a large address book I usual type a little and then pick from a small pick list, but I still managed to send one sensitive document to a random person in my address book last year. Somehow I found Outlook autocomplete was worse, but I can't remember why. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.