Re: Posting from work/university addresses

[Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>]

On Thu 2 Aug 2007 13:10, Robert Dewar pondered:
> Robin Getz wrote:
> 
> > Please make sure that this doesn't filter the requirements currently in place 
> > by EU based folks - who are now required by law to post all kinds of stuff 
> > (business address, company directors, etc) in their emails...
> 
> Let's make sure that we really know the rules before we follow them!
> Almost no one from the EU posts this stuff, and I have never heard
> of such a requirement in connection with our paris based company.

There are some people following them now - due to company policy - RedHat in Cambridge
and Analog Devices in Munich - I know for sure...

I see lots of messages on lkml with 

(Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, AmberleyPlace, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, UnitedKingdom.Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903Directors: Michael Cunningham (USA), Charlie Peters (USA) andDavid Owens (Ireland))


and even on the gcc list, I see in the footers:

--
 This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers.
 Analog Devices GmbH      Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Str. 6      80807 Muenchen
 Sitz der Gesellschaft Muenchen, Registergericht Muenchen HRB 40368
 Geschaeftsfuehrer Thomas Wessel, William A. Martin, Margaret Seif


Just because not many people are following the rules, doesn't mean we should 
punish the ones who are (no matter how ridiculous the law seems to be).

-Robin