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By Chris Northwood on 20 July 2009 at 18:23:

E-mail disclaimers carry absolutely no legal weight whatsoever (A point I wanted to make in the YSTV ‘People’ vs. HJF debate, but thought it best not to…): http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/