legal-sleaze

[Brett Dikeman]

At 2:45 PM -0400 8/4/03, Robert Jobson, Jr. wrote:

>  On the lighter side, I get those
>emails here alot with the no disclosure disclaimers on the bottom too, and
>always wondered....Isn't it a bit late to tell them at  the END not to read
>it if they aren't supposed to?

Yes- not to mention, it's entirely, completely, 100% unenforceable
from what I've read.  You can't just command me to do something- what
would stop you from putting "you must give me $50"?

I think we should preprocess all postings through a filter that zaps
the disclaimers(along with the yahoo/msn/whatever advertisements).
Maybe even emails it back to the recipient a few times, so they get
an idea of how annoying it is to read.  Perhaps we could also charge
them a per-message storage+processing fee, since the crap takes up
disk space in the archives...

Brett
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