Jo on aikoihin eletty.
The world we live in!
This morning's email from Sydney (tämän aamun sähköposti Sydneystä):
"Don't forget to send me the shopping list, kulta.
The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. [Organisation X] does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. [Organisation X's] liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments."
Comments - Kommentit
Oliko tämä suomalaiselta? Kysyn vain kun tässä on englannin ja suomen kielet molemmat! Mutta muu asia onkin kauheata!!!
Posted by: marja-leena | March 25, 2006 12:33 PM
Hei Marja-Leena,
Ensimmäinen rivi on mieheltä, joka muistuttaa lähettämään ostoslistan sähköpostilla, niin että hän voi tehdä ruokaostokset kotimatkallaan. Ja loput kauheudet on yleisradioyhtiö lisännyt viestin loppuun automaattisesti. Taisi siinä sentään olla katkoviiva välissä!
Anni
Posted by: Anni | March 25, 2006 12:37 PM
Hi Anni.
Some of these stupid "disclaimers" say: If you are not the intended recipient, do not read this message, etc. How do I know that the message was not intended for me, if I do not read it?
Besides, I keep hoping that one day I actually do get something which was not intended for me.
True story: Back before the days of emails, (years ago) I once found a letter to a very senior politician (a federal Minister) amongst a pile of routine Departmental letters. He is now retired. Although the letter was not actually incriminating of the Minister, it would have "taken some explaining" if it had become public.
It was from a "prominent member of the business community". Basically it was asking the Minister's private and confidential advice on how the correspondent could "handle" a certain matter "as you have done", in order to avoid prosecution, and could the Minister recommend a "good Lawyer"? It ended up, asking his advice as to whether the person ought leave the country, to go beyond the reach of Australian authorites (and this question, to a Minister of the Crown!) Surely an issue which would have opened the Minister to an inquiry of "conspriracy to pervert the course of justice" at the very least.
I was so terrified of having found this letter that I read it, went white with fear, and promptly delivered it personally to the Minister's chief of staff. From memory I said: "This came to the Department by mistake". Something of an understatement.
Before anyone asks, I have quite literally blanked from my memory all the incriminating details, the name of the correspondent, etc. Fear has a marvellously powerful effect.
I wish now that I had been brave enough to have blown the whistle, at the time. But I was a junior public serant who just happened to have found this highly private letter, by accident.
So, now that I have so much less to lose than I had at that stage, I still dream of getting a email (by mistake) with something in it worth reading!
Denis
Posted by: Denis | March 26, 2006 01:50 AM
Funny, indeed!
Posted by: Ansku | March 27, 2006 06:07 AM