From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 7 04:15:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03942 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [208.220.66.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03937 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dufault@hda.hda.com) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA10390; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:09:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199810071109.HAA10390@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: Disclaimers In-Reply-To: <19981007011131.32248@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Oct 7, 98 01:11:31 am" To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > A combination of the american liability laws and the general > unpleasantness of being taken to talk for somebody when you don't. > > Historically, it goes back to early USENET days, I think. Liability laws now-a-days, maybe. I believe it is because historically people posted from company accounts. They used to mostly say "I don't speak for Big Co". Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message