Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!sesame!slerner From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Disclaimers Message-ID: <267@sesame.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:00:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sesame.267 Posted: Sun Aug 11 04:00:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 03:24:09 EDT References: <9784@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Lotus Development Corp Lines: 27 > I'm sure there's already been a discussion on this that I somehow missed so > maybe someone can send me the gist of it, otherwise.. > > Disclaimers are becoming more and more widespread, either with a semi-humorous > or matter-of-fact style, from mostly company machines. Now there are two > reasons for their existence that I can see: > > 1) People are somehow becoming conscientious of their postings and voluntarily > disavow the company's knowledge of their actions. This I doubt (pardon > my scepticism). > I can't speak for the rest of the net, but I place my disclaimer in voluntarily. (I'm not even running on a Lotus machine) Why? I don't want every word out of my mouth being flung about attributed to Lotus. Their my crazy ideas and they can't have them! -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner slerner%sesame@harvard.ARPA