On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, David Beierl wrote:

> C'mon George, you know perfectly well that she has no control over what
> Reed, Smith puts on the bottom of her outgoing emails.  It's something that
> a lot of companies, and especially a lot of lawyer companies, do.

They're so often contradictory (or, as in this case, used in nonsensical
situations) that I suspect they have no actual legal standing at all,
making them a useless annoyance.

See also: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si