James,
I could use a web based email system, but that is again against my terms on employment, and its basically a PITA to do that. Are you therefore suggesting that I am not to send any emails to mailing lists at all?
Posting from home is never against terms of employment. I understand that this is a royal PITA (and makes for much longer turn-around times). Unfortunately, legalese tends to erode our freedoms.
I suggest that you (since you are the ONLY complainant) ignore the added clause as its not worth the ether it is written on.
And thank for being the first to complain on the Boost list. Hurray for you. Now get off my back, or I will ask for YOU to be unsubscribed. Isn't it rather sad that the first time I offer to add code to boost, I get a offensive reply like this?
In doing a search through the threads, I can see that you are not the first to post with a disclaimer. Additionally, I can see that this was not the first complaint either. I believe that it is generally a justified complaint, as such a disclaimer could potentially open up users to legal action. I would be especially concerned if I worked for a competitor of your company. I agree that a threat to ignore your messages or unsubscribe you was not justified. I also believe that your threat to unsubscribe another user was unjustified. As a Boost user, I appreciate all code submissions. Unfortunately, since you are posting from work, I can only expect that your submission is proprietary to your employer. If this is the case, please do not submit your code.
I would ask the list owners to just be sensible. Most emails nowadays are sent with these nonsense lines at the end (although this is one of the worst), and they are almost exclusively ignored, because they are in general unenforceable.
Some sense is required by all of us. AFAICT, the list owners are being sensible, as they allow you to post. I would not go so far as to say the disclaimer is unenforceable ... it is pretty amazing what lawyers can do in a court room these days ... Just My Humble Opinion, Justin P.S. I am not a lawyer.