A fun little article here on those irksome confidentiality disclaimers that so many companies (including, alas, mine) insist on sticking at the bottom of all outgoing e-mail. Rrg.
Ignoring the e-mail’s threats, I forwarded it to my 175-pound Samoan attorney for his opinion, and he convinced me that Time Inc. has much more to fear from me than I have to fear from Time Inc. In fine Socratic fashion, my counsel walked me through the disclaimer, sentence by sentence, encouraging me to add my own thinking to our exercise. Here are my notes.
Be sure to also not miss this lengthy site on the subject, these amusing parodies, and the longest disclaimer on record.
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Dave
Your texty bits went a bit on the hooykablooy side for everything after this post.
I frame the “via” text with a <small>/</small> combo (which is deprecated, but there you go). If I forget (or mistype) the trailing </small>, it stays in effect even after the blog entry. I’ve noticed this before.
So I can either (a) insert a usually-superflous </small> in the blog entry template (which will catch the errors, but mask them), or (b) see if doing the text shrinkage in CSS is easier and/or gets close more automatically.
I’ve done (a), but eventually will have to try out (b).