From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 6 10:43:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03026 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03015 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA15007; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:43:14 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199810061743.GAA15007@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: "Jason C. Wells" Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:43:14 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Disclaimers Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19981005152856.A16611@Denninger.Net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 6 Oct 98, at 10:16, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give > >up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. > > Is there some sort of history behind these, "I speak only for myself" > disclaimers? I have seen a few of them. Frankly, they seem odd. It's mostly a USA thing. Denial of liability in case you do what they say and it goes wrong. It also serves to disassociate the company from the individual comments. For example, it attempts to prevent the company from promoting line of thinking which it may not wish to promote, say if an employee goes postal over something. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message