Discussion Groups / British English / September 2005

I received a couple of suggestions from a colleague:

Text: If you received it "in" error
Replace with: If you received it "by" error

Text: [MyCompany] does not ensure this information "to be" complete or
accurate.
Replace with: [MyCompany] does not ensure this information "is"
completed or accurate.

What do you think?

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chabral

In uk.culture.language.english on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:35:27 +0200, Giles
Todd <g@prullenbak.todd.nu> wrote:

}Tell your management that review, dissemination, distribution and
}copying are all implicit in their having sent the message to an
}unintended recipient.  Oh, you could also ask them why they are
}sending messages that are potentially incomplete and inaccurate to
}unintended recipients and maybe suggest that they choose a method of
}communication which does not bear these hazards.

Good, I was hoping someone would speak up.

}Then ask the owners of your company why they are employing managers
}who are wasting their employees time and the owners' money writing
}such unenforceable and frankly stupid garbage.  It only makes the
}company look bad.

Then ask the fuckwits why the disclaimer, is not subject to the terms of
the disclaimer ?

}Your draft is fine, except that I would write 'e-mail message' in
}place of 'email', and 'for the purpose of information' rather than
}'for information purpose'.  But the whole thing is redundant anyway,
}for the reasons stated above.

It is totally useless unenforceable bullshit, believe me it makes you look
very very stupid.

{R}

Unless you have a contract with the firm (unlikely if you are not the
intended recipient!) you are not bound by those conditions, as you have not
accepted them.