A candidate "disclaimer"...

It seems everyone has one of those "if you're not the addressee" prohibitions as part of their signatures on emails. One I got recently (tacked, naturally, to the end of the message) goes so far as to say "If the recipient of this message is not the addressee... such recipient is prohibited from reading this message" (!).

Any and all such prohibitions, of course, miss the major problem of someone "not the addressee" getting hold of your mail. You can prohibit all you want, but there's nothing to prevent anyone from doing the things you're prohibiting.

I've come up with something a bit more practical in this regard. Now, I just need to gather up enough gumption to actually use it in my signature :^)

Check it out:

If you have received this electronic communication in error, or have intercepted it en route to its intended recipient, please rest assured that any privileged, proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information in or attached to this communication will be encrypted, thus making any disclosure, copying, or distribution fairly pointless, wouldn't you agree?

Encryption, frankly, is the only way to make sure that what you send by email stays between you and the recipient, as it is apparently child's play for a malevolent individual to capture email passing through any of the machines that handle such traffic.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Cheers...