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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: implicit disclaimer
Summary: We should get rid of those stupid disclaimers.
Keywords: disclaimer
Message-ID: <1805@osc.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 00:52:54 GMT
Reply-To: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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More and more i see people including disclaimers in their posts saying that
any opinions in the post are their own, and they're not speaking for their
employer or boss or grandparents.  Of course i already know that, but they
still have to put them there because some people might not know that.  What i
propose is to draft up a statement that occasionally gets posted to some news
groups, especially the new-user group, saying that any posts are assumed to
represent the views of the individual, etc., unless otherwise specified.  This
way it will become legally `common knowledge' and people won't have to include
those bandwidth-wasting disclaimers in every post.  What do you think?