Re: [Exim] Adding a disclaimer to out going

Quoth Philip Hazel on Thu, Jun 15, 2000:
> You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. You cannot
> force something to be seen, let alone read.

Well said.

> I just received a message
> from someone where the disclaimer was about 20 lines long (and much more
> than 80 characters wide), while the message itself was about 5 lines. On
> complaining, he said "lots of people complain, but our legal people are
> adamant".

Don't the lawyers understand that people don't read this stuff?
If the disclaimers were short and to the point, people probably
would read them. OTOH, I do read licenses on all software I
install by hand (== from the sources, as opposed to what comes
with the OS or from the ports collections of the OS).

> If this goes on, somebody is going to write an intelligent MUA
> that recognizes disclaimer-type material, and automatically doesn't
> display it. Student project, anybody?

Or sould we play the game called Kill-A-Lawyer?

Vadik.

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