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Re: It's Your Call: Which E-mail Disclaimer is Best?
Subject:Re: It's Your Call: Which E-mail Disclaimer is Best? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
Something else to keep in mind when dealing with lawyers. Unlike us,
where we want a sentence to mean ONLY and EXACTLY what we want, they
don't want the language to be absoluely specific. They WANT
ambiquity. It makes it alot easier to apply it to aa wider range of
situations.
Example...the program "The West Wing"...(I love the writing in the
program)..there was an episode where the Whitehouse chief councel was
prepping someone to be a witness.
Out of the blue, he askes "Do you know what time it is?" The witness,
just like most of us would, answered something to the effect "it is
9pm".
However, that wasn't the answer to the question. The right answer was
"yes".
--- John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> > to comment is sensible. However, many corporate lawyers have the
> > mistaken belief that properly protective content can only be
> > delivered
> > with a certain set of stock phrases, or at least with a certain
> > style.
>
> And in a sense, they are right some of the time.
=====
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
"How to be happy in life: Never impose your beliefs
on anyone else and never fry bacon in the nude."
-- Anon mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874
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