From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:04:13 -0700
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All,

> Perhaps we make a policy that corporate-style ("disclaimered") mail
> is encouraged to seek support via corporate-style channels (e.g. is
> pointed at the commercial support companies). =A0I'm uncomfortable with
> such a policy, but it'd be better than "ignore these nasty corporate
> victims", which is what the proposal so far sounds like to me.

=46irst off, I'm not clear on why we're discussing this on -hackers; -www w=
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be the appropriate list.  So I'm cross posting; please reply any additional=
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messages to -www.

Second, I'm not sure why we care.  I don't believe that e-mail confidential=
ity=20
notices are in fact enforceable, or at least they haven't been in some=20
high-profile cases which made the news.  IANAL, of course.

However:

> Haven't we been over this at least once before? Greg is right, just
> document the point and leave it alone. If you want to get really picky
> about, make the confirmation email from the subscription process
> specifically state that confirming subscription is an acceptance of the
> PostgreSQL.Org usage policies which can be found here (insert link).

This is a good idea anyway.  We should have a list usage policy, and we sho=
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link to if from the subscribe confirmation and from the web subscription=20
page.  In addition to letting people know that e-mail confidentiality foote=
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will be ignored, we can tell them how the lists are moderated, how to=20
unsubscribe (can't have this in enough places), not to use HTML mail, etc.

So, who wants to write it?

The only additional idea I have is that we ought to simply strip away any=20
e-mail footer over 4 lines from the archives.   Not only would this purge t=
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confidentiality footers, it would save us some space in general.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco