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1 FIRST E-IMPRESSIONS....................................................................................................................... 3
2 DISCRETION IN E-MAIL CRITICISM ............................................................................................ 4
3 HTML-FORMATTED E-MAIL DOESNT WORK RELIABLY ............................................... 6
4 CC + REPLY ALL = TROUBLE: ........................................................................................................ 8
5 BCC PREVENTS E-MAIL NUISANCES ......................................................................................... 9
6 BURYING YOUR E-MAIL MESSAGE ..........................................................................................11
7 MISLEADING SUBJECT LINES .....................................................................................................13
8 E-MAIL DISCLAIMER STIMULATES EXPLETIVES ..............................................................14
9 FORWARDING CORPORATE E-MAIL ........................................................................................16
10 E-MAIL SUBJECT LINES EXPLOITED BY WORMS ..........................................................18
11 INTERNET E-MAIL AND THE FIREWALL ...........................................................................21
11.1 Management Implications of External Access.........................................................................21
11.2 Email Access to FTP .....................................................................................................................21
11.3 Denial of Service ............................................................................................................................21
12 ORGANIZATIONAL E-MAIL ADDRESSES ...........................................................................23
13 THE KEEPER OF THE LISTS ......................................................................................................24
14 MAILSTORMS ..................................................................................................................................25
15 Delivery Not Guaranteed ..................................................................................................................27
16 PROTECTING ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION ............................................................29
16.1 Selling Products and Services .....................................................................................................29
16.2 Unwanted Messages ......................................................................................................................30
16.3 The Prime Directive ......................................................................................................................31
16.4 Responsible Posting.......................................................................................................................32
16.5 No Covert Ads or Shills................................................................................................................32
16.6 Dont Talk to Strangers.................................................................................................................33
http://www.mekabay.com/infosecmgmt/emailsec.pdf
Please note that for the purposes of this document all references to
<Name of Bank> or the Bank shall be taken to mean <Name of Bank>
(place) Limited or any other member of the <Bigger> Bank Group. Nothing
in this transmission shall or shall be deemed to constitute an offer or
acceptance of an offer or otherwise have the effect of forming a
contract by electronic communication.
I commented in my response to my correspondent, Did you know that your message has 30 words
(152 bytes including spaces) whereas your disclaimer has 367 words (2177 btyes)? Thats the lowest
signal-to-noise ratio (6.5% useful info out of the total and a 72.6:1::noise:signal ratio) Ive ever seen
outside a copy-of-copy-of-copy chain. Please congratulate your attorneys on making maximal use of
bandwidth!
Really, this disclaimer does seem excessively detailed to me. If the same level of legalistic caution
were applied to phone calls, it would make a wonderful Monty-Pythonesque skit:
OK then, Ill see you at lunch tomorrow.
Yep, but wait you have to listen to the automated legal disclaimer our attorneys have
programmed into our phone system. Just hang on [buzz, click]. [metallic voice] This phone