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One of the many secondary duties I've picked up at my work is a partial responsibility for dealing with SPAM. Mostly this consists of "white-listing" stuff that was erroneously flagged as SPAM by our less-than-stellar current SPAM solution. Soon after I picked up this responsibility, I discovered that the legal disclaimer we attach at the bottom of every single e-mail triggers the SPAM filter, not going out, but coming back in. This means that anytime someone responds to an e-mail one of the people in the company has sent out, that if they don't take the time to delete the disclaimer, when it comes back in it will be flagged as SPAM and sent to their junk e-mail folder. I never cared for these sorts of disclaimers in the first place, but you can imagine how unimpressed I am with them now.

I write about this because the transportation department sent out an e-mail to 100 people demanding that people respond with what sort of shipping bag they use. So all 100 people respond, no one deletes the disclaimer, and I end up with 100 new e-mail addresses that I have to add to the white list... Of course, your first question is why don't you just change the disclaimer? Well, I've looked into that and apparently the legal department spent months and months on it, so it might as well have been carved in stone and carried down from the top of Mount Sinai by a guy with a beard.

I just discovered that there's a new Star Wars movie coming out (no I'm not talking about Revenge of the Sith). It's called Star Wars: Revelations. I know what you're thinking and that question (isn't Lucas going to sue the hell out of you?) is in the FAQ. But speaking of suing, I know that someone can turn a blind-eye to copyright violation if they choose, but it's my understanding that if you don't defend your trademark, that you risk losing it (the trademark in question being "Star Wars").

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