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UK ISP reacts to automated e-mail legalese footers
Friday June 06, @03:28PM
My ISP, Andrews & Arnold (a great, geek-friendly UK ISP) have recently come up with a rather telling response to all the junk legalese footers you see on e-mail from big businesses. Their mailserver points you to a terms and conditions page whenever you connect to it; they believe that these terms are as enforceable as those in the footers.
It'd be great to see if a company that automatically adds a legalese footer to outgoing e-mail had enough courage to try and enforce them against AAISP; I'd love to see a judge trying to understand just what was going on in an SMTP exchange.
Crack pipe refilled
Tuesday March 08 2005, @03:27AM
I've got 5 more mod points; if there's a comment out there you'd like to see moderated, point me at it.
Edit: All gone.
OpenBSD/sparc64 has eeprom(8)
Saturday March 05 2005, @11:41AM
Today's item on things I wish I'd known earlier: eeprom(8) exists and works to interrogate and set the OpenPROM on OpenBSD/sparc64. Would have saved me a few reboots and some mess with serial console when I was trying to work out why I was having trouble with bridging across a QFE (setting local-mac-address?=true in OpenPROM got it working).
Moderation on offer
Monday February 21 2005, @05:47AM
Post a CID link if you see comments that need more moderation, even your own; I've got points again, and I've been smoking that crack pipe :)
Edit: Pipe empty. Points gone.
Mod points
Friday February 18 2005, @07:19AM
5 shiny mod points, to use up by 2005-02-21. If you see a comment that you think needs them, post me a link.
Edit: All gone.
