CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

        We've all seen the confidentiality notices at the end of some companies' emails. 

       You know the statements, like: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to the sender immediately or by telephone at (area code) exchange-XXXX and destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments.  For further information regarding Our Offficial Company Who Pays High Priced Lawyers Who Developed Our Corporations's  Privacy Policy, please visit our Internet web site at any-official http:// www. Any Official Corporation Mentioned In This Email .com.

       I just wonder how many of those companies know their confidentiality statement has been seen at the end of emails like:
=personal email to family
=pictures
=X-rated pictures
=jokes
=jokes with pictures, icons, emoti-cons, etc
=spam alerts
=a spoof alert that the spam alert wasn't true
=virus alerts
=a spoof alert saying the virus alert is not true (even though 20 friends insisted it was a "really bad virus")
=essays making fun of spam and virus alerts
=recipes
=true prayers
=prayers - the ones you must send to 10 people in 5 minutes
=novinas - the ones you must send to 22 people in 2 minutes
=proven returns - the ones you must send to 6 people you don't know for your wish to come true
=expressions of friendship - the ones you must send back to the sender to prove you are really a friend
="___ Day" (Buddy Day; Friendship Day; Online Friends Day; War Protest Day; Today =is the Day....any day you call it day)
=short humorous stories
=short inspirational stories
=short inspirational stories that tell you to have a Kleenex ready
=forwards of warnings about overseas "banking" email schemes from supposed war-torn third world countries asking you to give a bank account number so they can deposit 3 million dollars, of which they will give you 15% "of proceeds"
=forwards of warnings about phishing
=forwards of warnings concerning any major company, usually ones concening computer companies
=forwards of other computer hoaxes
=forwards to tell you that malicious codes can be entered onto your hard-drive if you do any innocent act, which then allows the virus to enter your backdoor, using your hidden key you put under the flower pot, sneak into your bedroom, erase your memory in 1 second (lol, like I had that much memory to erase!), then stun your dog, make your cat stop being haughty, make your wife/husband be more loving, make your kids be obedient...and lastly, infects all the food in your fridge...
=Emails selling.... High Demand and Costly Computer Programs for $10.00 plus S/H.... Viragra or other high demand drug... or other sales pitches...
=ETC. !

     Moreso, I wonder about all the employees, sitting at their work stations, sending out all these emails during work hours, using official company email systems?  I think it degrades a company's image to have their "confidentiality statements" end up as tags on these spam and basically junk emails.  No, I'm not a stick in the mud; I enjoy a good joke and inspirational stories -- but my eyebrows go up when I see the company tag line.  It really gets to me when the tag line is from a government agency, like the IRS on a joke or other non-official email!  We PAY those workers to WORK, not send out spam, junk, jokes, and virus warnings.

     Half the time I don't know the people in the "TO" field, or the names that appear in the "TO" fields on endless "forwards" that email has had!  Am I the only person who knows how to copy and paste?  It's quite easy -- highlight just the message area (not the previous email addresses!), click Ctl+C, open a new email screen, click Ctl+V, and enter a subject line, the new email addresses you want to send to, and click send.  Ah, I forgot one thng--- add a ( before the first email address, and a ) after the last email address to create a "BCC" list.  "BCC" stands for "blind carbon copy."  Using BCC, you won't show a list of 20 of YOUR friends' addresses to everyone that ends up later getting a forward (for the 6th time) of the same email.

     Companies need to crack down on the use of their email systems.  When I feel particularly crabby on some days, I think about forwarding the email to the company whose "confidentiality statement" appears at the end of the junk email.  I don't think the companies would be too happy to see the junk with their company name at the end!  Maybe we should all start notifying companies about emails that contain company names? 

      My pet-peeve for today.