AlexPGP's Corner

Everyone, it seems, has a disclaimer tacked onto the end of his or her email. Personally, I detest the things, as they are simply a waste of otherwise perfectly good bits, but the pressure to conform is becoming stifling.

I'm thinking of using the following email disclaimer:

This email may contain confidential information. If it does, and you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender of this error and destroy all copies in your possession. As a result, while your karma may or may not improve, it is almost certain that no endangered species will come to harm as a result of complying with this request. If you aren't reading this, then this disclaimer has done its job.

I would dare to make this a bit more "edgy," but as the one and only purpose of having such a device welded to the butt of every email is to give the appearance of professionalism—and as virtually everyone I correspond with has one of those dry, ugly disclaimers that take themselves all too seriously—I wonder if a really "out there" disclaimer might not entail some hostile (and worse, silent) blowback.

Your opinions, on any of this?

Cheers...