On Monday 20 March 2006 05:37, JTD wrote:
This is a bit late. But it wasn't ot at all. I am sick of receiving one line mails with 20 line disclaimers from banks, phone cos., credit card cos, sundry 2bitmarketroids etc etc etc etc. My point is that customers want a lot of crap without knowing anything about it's usefulness. GNU/Linux vendors should do better than continue shoddy practices. Do educate the customer instead. Particularly when they are paying you $-).
Look I too agree with you completely on the uselessness of disclaimers. But I strongly feel when a person requests help he shouldn't get answers which question the very necessity of what he is trying to do. He should get a solution.
If we want to stop companies from putting in disclaimers then we should write to them asking for appointments and show them how annoying & pointless their disclaimers are. I dont know the legal aspect of the disclaimer but if its no use even from a legal point of view then the companies should understand. It will definitely save them a lot of bandwidth too.
The OP is just the messenger and we don't want to kill the messenger do we? ;-)