[H-GEN] The Horror of Disclaimers

[Robert Kearey]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> ["Region has 32 lines, 1490 characters"...uh, that's quite a
> disclaimer you have there, big boy.]

Many businesses are now *required* by law (the ammended Privacy Act, 
2001) to add such disclaimers to all email correspondence. This sucks 
beyond belief. Happily, I was able to get legal advice that a URL in the 
email signature would suffice for most things. See 
http://apac.redhat.com/disclaimer for an example thereof.

-- 
Rob K - Ich mag Chips mit brauner Soße
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Please abbreviate 'bandwidth' as 'bndwth'
thereby conserving precious bndwth.


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