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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:41:55 -0500
From:      "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        "Jay Chandler" <chandler@chapman.edu>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   [OT] mail disclaimers [ was Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) ]
Message-ID:  <002401c73b6b$00541b80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F126733D@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <45B01FEC.1030008@chapman.edu>

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> > [ snip much ado about mail etiquette and sigs and whatnot ]
> >
> > I started using the lists from work years ago when I was
> > establishing the FreeBSD servers and it was easier to get
> > Q&A stuff done... Since then the weenies have come along
> > and changed out a perfectly servicable Postfix / Cyrus
> > mail system with M$ Exchg(barf), and the beanies wanted the
> > disclaimers ......
> >
>
> Have any of these disclaimers ever proven to be even the slightest bit
> legally enforceable?
>
> I mean, for God's sake, they're at the bottom of the message,
> essentially telling you not to read the message you just read.

Probably just as enforceable as the shrink-wrap licence on Windows. (By
using this CD, you agree to be bound by the EULA which you will get a chance
to review when installing the software...)

--
Matt




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