Corporate email footers

Paul Meekin

2014-08-01 07:24:33 UTC

I think of these as the equivalent of the shrink-wrapped software bundles
with the booklet inside saying "Opening this package indicates acceptance
of the terms and conditions". I'm sure Microsoft got away with that for
years.

Trouble with those scare footers though is they always make me read the
mail that bit more carefully in case something truly confidential *has*
accidentally slipped out.

But yes, IBM lawyers are no slouches so we can probably expect to see them
with "IBM Message Q Bus Enterprise" Version 9 when it hits the streets
(ooops sorry - still under NDA. You are now legally required to forget you
read this name).

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Lawrence's email footer got me to thinking…the more MQ goes B2B, the more
we'll need IBM to provide an appropriate message property or header for
this. You still receive the MQ message representing that order from your
vendor, but attached to it is a header or message property that contains
this:

This message, including any attachments, is the property of Sears
Holdings Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries. It is
confidential and may contain proprietary or legally privileged
information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it
without reading the contents. Thank you.

These footers have only one real purpose: they are the algae in a food
chain which terminates at the top with lawyers. You can tell because only
a lawyer would, with a straight face, insist that a notice instructing you
not to read the contents of an email message is effective when inserted at
the bottom of the message. Not only is it unenforceable in a court of law,
but it is constructed in such a way as to preclude the possibility of
compliance.

Which makes it a great candidate for official support from IBM. There's
bound to be incredible demand for it once lawyers make the mental
connection that MQ messages are like email messages but lacking the
obligatory corporate boilerplate restrictive-yet-useless footer. Expect
the PCI council to make these mandatory at some point.

-- T.Rob

T.Robert Wyatt, Managing partner
IoPT Consulting, LLC
+1 704-443-TROB
https://ioptconsulting.com
https://twitter.com/tdotrob

From: MQSeries List [mailto:***@LISTSERV.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT] On Behalf
Of Coombs, Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:47 AM
To: ***@LISTSERV.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT
Subject: Re: A file required to load onto a queue using qload

It is possible to recreate/copy the contents of a queue by using a
combination of the IBM sample program amqsbcg in conjunction with the qload
(Paul Clarke) utility.

Here is how you do it:
1. Browse the queue and redirect the output to a file
Ø Amqsbcg QName QMName > /tmp/xxxxx.out
2. Next run qload
Ø Qload –m QMName –oQName –f/tmp/xxxxxout
Qload will read the output from the browse and recreate messages.
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Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries. It is confidential and may
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you.

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