Some bullshit

[prog]

If you are not the intended recipient, please do not retain, copy, use, or otherwise disclose the information contained in this message. Instead, please delete it and notify the sender.

Has this ever happened in the history of email?

"When you are finished recording, you may hang up, or press star for more options. (pause) To leave a numeric page, press pound. (pause) *boop*"

Has this ever happened in the history of telephony? As an alternative to leaving a voice message and then hanging up, I mean.

The first one is just insulting legalese that I barely notice, but the second actively wastes my time every time I leave a voice mail for practically anyone. I hate it!

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[keimel.livejournal.com]

I used to have a line in my postfix banner that said something like "You agree to my terms at http://website.com/foo "

In those rules I had a bit about "Any email sent to this domain, accidental or on purpose, is submitted for immediate publishing at the discretion of the postmater" or some crap - just because my receiving your misdirected email does not leave me liable to your idciocy in mis-sending email.

I used to get a lot of crap email into 'atacc.org' email that was destined for some other organization, obviously not in the same realm as what we did and was somehow non-profit. They all had those stupid warnings at the bottom of their emails.

A recent similar case in regard to voicemail was evident in some political stuff. The Minneapolis gay sex senator person left a voicemail on some random person's answering machine as the result of a wrong number and laid out some of the detail in which another well known senator was going to support him in his defense. That person gave or sold the message to the news outlets.

IANAL, of course, but I see no obligation just because it says you're not supposed to. It's a nonconsensual contract. I agree with you. Stupid. But of course, it is probably the 'right' thing to do to just delete it. I never really thought otherwise until I started seeing those warning and thinking "well screw you pal, I never agree to that!"

;)