These are very useful devices.

Everyday, more and more people get one and use it to stay connected while away from their office.  However, if you’ve ever used one to exchange emails back and forth with a person or people who’s organization(s) insists on adding a ‘Notice of Confidentiality’ (in Canada often in both English and French) like this at the bottom of every message, you know it becomes a real pain in the ass to scroll through a thread.

NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY
This communication including any information transmitted with it is intended only for the use of the addressees and is confidential. If you are not an intended recipient or responsible for delivering the message to an intended recipient, any review, disclosure, conversion to hard copy, dissemination, reproduction or other use of any part of this communication is strictly prohibited, as is the taking or omitting of any action in reliance upon this communication. If you receive this communication in error or without authorization please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and permanently delete the entire communication from any computer, disk drive, or other storage medium.

If the above disclaimer is not properly readable, it can be found at: abc.com/legal 

AVERTISSEMENT DE CONFIDENTIALITE
Ce courriel, ainsi que tout renseignement ci-inclus, destiné uniquement aux destinataires susmentionnés, est confidentiel. Si vous n’êtes pas le destinataire prévu ou un agent responsable de la livraison de ce courriel, tout examen, divulgation, copie, impression, reproduction, distribution, ou autre utilisation d’une partie de ce courriel est strictement interdit de même que toute intervention ou abstraction à cet égard. Si vous avez reçu ce message par erreur ou sans autorisation, veuillez en aviser immédiatement l’expéditeur par retour de courriel ou par un autre moyen et supprimer immédiatement cette communication entière de tout système électronique.

Si l’avis de non-responsabilité ci-dessus n’est pas lisible, vous pouvez le consulter à abc.com/legale

COME ON!  Is all this text really necessary in every email sent from every person in your organization?  Particularly when some email messages are only a sentence or less (e.g. Yes, No, OK).

Do organizations actually think people read these notices and take the action of notifying the organization if they receive the message in error?

If a Notice of Confidentially absolutely needs to be there, would something simple like this, on one or two lines, not be sufficent?

Notice of Confidentiality: abc.com/legal  / Avertissement de confidentialite: abc.com/legale