OT: Disclaimers (was Re: [Gllug] Small PCs)

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:34:51PM +0000, William Palfreman wrote:
> This message is Copyright (c) William Palfreman 2002, and patented in
> the EU, Switzerland, Swaziland and Hull, and may not be viewed by anyone.
> If you find this message on your computer delete it immediately, or face the
> severest legal penalties.  If you have received this message in error, or
> as part of a mailing list distribution, you have already broken the law
> and legal compensation will be required in due course. It is illegal to
> carry this or any part of this message over any distribution medium, not
> least and including any network Internet based storage or transmission
> media or media-like formats.  Decrypting the information's ASCII encoding
> in order to read this message involves a breach of the Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act in the United States and extra-territorially, rendering your
> family open to civil forfeiture and R.I.C.O. statutes.  If viewed in the
> United Kingdom please allow two days for Charing Cross Child Protection
> Unit for remove your PC, sound card, monitor and SCSI cables pending the
> completion of their investigation.

What an awesome disclaimer. Not so sure about the ASCII encoding claim
though, unless you suggest that the message has been double
rot-13'd. Quite how it got to me in the first place is slightly
confusing, given the content of the disclaimer....

> </html>

Why, oh why, oh why does it close the HTML tag without opening it? :)

> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Checked!

Nice to know.

Cheers,

Simon

-- 
"People in general are not fundamentally stupid."
"Cite?"
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