Pointless E-mail Disclaimers
I’ve been collecting disclaimers that appear on the bottom of e-mail messages in a draft post on DLTJ for about a year now — every time I’d get a new one with a different twist, I’d save it anticipating the day would come that there would be enough humor here to share with the rest of you. That day has come. There wasn’t one that disclaimer that finally pushed the publication of this post over the edge; just the accumulation of examples. Identifying information has been removed, but the humor was left intact. If you recognize your institution/company in these examples, please laugh along with me. If you are the lawyer or pseudo-lawyer that drafted these, please do us all a favor and find something else to work on. Like drafting disclaimers for toothpicks and such.
Also tagged culture, email, humor, internet
An in-law sent me a flash animation card from a site called “Elf Yourself” ™ — no link love here, guess the URL or find it in Google — that has some cartoon elves dancing with the images of this in-law’s family’s faces superimposed on the cartoons. It was cute, and I contemplated sending a reply with the faces of my family. As I typically do, I scanned through the Terms of Use that one must accept before starting and the word “universe” caught my eye. “Self,” I said to myself, “why would the word universe be in the Terms of Use?” So went back and read the entire Terms of Use, and the good bit is in “Grant of Rights” (my own emphasis added):
LC's Adoption of Silverlight -- Good Deal for Microsoft, Bad Deal for the Rest of Us:
Fixing a Mac OSX Leopard Login Loop Caused by Launch Services:
Traditional Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for Software Development:
On the Internet, How Do You Know If You Are Talking to a Dog?:
The Complex World of the Textbook:
Video Tour of OPAC Discovery Layer Tools: