A few months ago I mentioned email disclaimers, more specifically the rather silly and amusing ones.
Over the last few weeks some people’s usage of disclaimers AND signatures has been getting on my nerves. Do I really want to read 10 lines of links and spurious junk AND a long corporate disclaimer?
An email signature should contain the necessary contact information ie. company name, website, telephone and fax. There’s no point in putting in line upon line of text, “bouncy” signatures, graphics or other things. They may impress people who don’t use email much, but if you get any serious levels of email this kind of crap is simply annoying.
Michele Neylon :: Pensieri
Technology, Marketing, Domains, Thoughts
Maybe they’re over-compensating for a lack of size elsewhere?
the opinions I heve heard are that to be a valid an actual disclaimer must accompony text, a link to a dedicated disclaimer type page doesn’t suffice so every webpagemust have the text, same for email
that said the valididity of online contracts is questionsbale on every level
I think the i-to-i one might qualify for this award.
Unfortunately, I had designed this back in the day. Oh how I wish I hadn’t…
Very simply suggest to the sender that they repeat the entire signature to anyone who rings the company.
Imagine how hard it would be to do business if:
“Nothing in this message is capable of, or intended to, create any legally binding obligations on either party or be used in any legal proceedings whatsoever.”
Dell always take our credit card numbers via email (yes, very dangerous but I’ve been unable to persuade them to do it any other way so far and its not my card 🙂 ), so that means technically they can’t accept any of our orders.
I can’t imagine any of these statements actually standing in court, so why bother wasting space.