Re: Need some disclaimer text

[Thom Randolph <thom -at- tctrandolph -dot- com>]

Kim:

(After twice posting replies to the wrong person) Here's what we do:

We use "This material is preliminary, and subject to change." It's set in 
the same font and size as normal text, with weight as bold, and color as red.

We put this immediately following the topic title on each topic it applies 
to. The reasoning to having it on each topic is that since it is on-line 
material, we can't really be sure that people would see or read the first 
page, and might just print the one topic they're interested in. Thus, 
having it on every page makes it unmistakable.

When we originally decided on this text, one member of the team wanted it 
to read "This material is preliminary, and may change in the released 
version". After quite a bit of consideration, we decided that we should NOT 
say "in the released version", since saying so really constituted a 
"contract" of sort. It would essentially promise that there WOULD be a 
final version. That's often called a "forward looking statement", that says 
something about the future that may or may not actually occur.

Thom Randolph


At 01:53 PM 4/19/2002 -0400, Kim Schaefer wrote: