[U-Boot-Users] doc for config options?

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

On 4/29/07, Robin Gilks <robin.gilks at tait.co.nz> wrote:
> Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > On 4/27/07, Bühn, Oliver <OBuehn at raytek.de> wrote:
> >
> >>  This message (including any attachments) contains confidential
> >>  and/or proprietary information intended only for the addressee.
> >
> > Hmm. You are aware that you're posting this to a public mailing list, right? ;-)
>
> I keep seeing comments like this - I'm sure that my IT dept will stick
> something similar onto this email - but the intended recipient *IS* the
> mailing list so thats all right then isn't it? It sure beats pratting
> about with a gmail account to protect just a few peoples sensibilities...

Yeah, but it _is_ pretty strange to post confidential information on a
public mailing list, isn't it? What happens if you really _did_ post
something you didn't mean to -- will the disclaimer actually mean a
damn thing as long as it's being attached to _all_ emails no matter
whether they're confidential or not?

Anyway, I didn't really mean to critizise anyone here. Although I
think such disclaimers are just plain stupid, complaining about it on
u-boot-users certainly isn't going to change anything. And the next
thing that happens is probably that my own IT department does the same
thing...

Btw, I use a gmail account mostly for convenience -- I was having some
problems with my VPN setup some time ago, so I subscribed to
u-boot-users and linux-kernel with my gmail account to ensure that I
could reply to u-boot and Linux mail from home. I try to send
important stuff like patches and pull requests from my Atmel address,
but that might change if they decide to put stupid disclaimers on all
my e-mails...I can't seriously submit patches that are "confidential"
for inclusion in a GPL'd project, can I?

Haavard