[H-GEN] The Horror of Disclaimers

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Kearey <mammal at optushome.com.au> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, it does.  I guess I'm not so against corporate disclaimers,
'specially the ones that get added by the MTA (I think I've heard of
this) leaving the user with nothing to do about it.  So, Tony, if
you're reading this, I didn't mean to suggest you were doing something
wrong by using it since I'm guessing you can't do anything about it
anyway.

> 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.

Sweet.  I wonder if that applies here.
-- 
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