[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Janice B. Bescherer wrote:
> Received the following.  Any info regarding its meaning?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Janice
> 
> This email including any files transmitted with it is intended solely for
> the above-mentioned recipient and it may contain confidential or privileged
> information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender
> immediately and then destroy any copies of it. You must not copy,
> distribute, disclose or take any action in reliance on it.

It means that the company from whose machine that mail was sent has a
bunch of nervous lawyers working for it who required that disclaimer to
be attached to all their outgoing mail messages.

(If that company is *your* company, you probably forgot to attach
something to your message, so "the following" referred to the disclaimer
rather than to the error to which you're referring.)