SteveTheGeek
MIS
All,
I see all email coming to my company that fails to find a specific mailbox, which happens when people typo legitimate addresses, and also when they use the wrong domain name (since we have a relatively simple domain name that matches our and several other company names). Many emails (roughly a half-dozen per day) that I see because of incorrect domain name addresses have footers on them instructing "if you're not the addressee, remove this email from your system immediately and contact the sender" or similar to that.
My question is, are these instructions enforceable in the US? I'm not about to go broadcasting these emails to their competitors, but since they don't generally use a signature line it would take me a few minutes per email to figure out who sent it, and to go in and REALLY delete it from my system would take a minute or so each as well.
I understand that the sending company probably really doesn't care all that much (and wouldn't even find out unless I told them), but I'm somewhat annoyed that an email accidentally sent to me would require action on my part, particularly when it would take MORE action on my part because the sender doesn't include a sig line.
-Steve
I see all email coming to my company that fails to find a specific mailbox, which happens when people typo legitimate addresses, and also when they use the wrong domain name (since we have a relatively simple domain name that matches our and several other company names). Many emails (roughly a half-dozen per day) that I see because of incorrect domain name addresses have footers on them instructing "if you're not the addressee, remove this email from your system immediately and contact the sender" or similar to that.
My question is, are these instructions enforceable in the US? I'm not about to go broadcasting these emails to their competitors, but since they don't generally use a signature line it would take me a few minutes per email to figure out who sent it, and to go in and REALLY delete it from my system would take a minute or so each as well.
I understand that the sending company probably really doesn't care all that much (and wouldn't even find out unless I told them), but I'm somewhat annoyed that an email accidentally sent to me would require action on my part, particularly when it would take MORE action on my part because the sender doesn't include a sig line.
-Steve