Date   : Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:01:00 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Acorn RISC PC700

Littlefield Aaron wrote:

 > I'm in Farnborough, Hants.

Damn. Eight years too late. :-)
[used to live in Ash]


> The information contained in this E-Mail and any subsequent

... I do wish companies wouldn't attach disclaimers larger than lesser 
planetoids to outgoing emails, especially containing nonsense like "The 
information contained in this E-Mail and any subsequent correspondence 
is private and is intended solely for the intended recipient(s)." to a 
message destined to a semi-public mailing list with an archive...

"Any response to this email indicates consent to this." Possibly legally 
untenable - for how is "response" defined? A response could be to take 
the email containing all the juicy insider information and plaster it 
across a double-page spread in an appropriate trade magazine. Or you 
could just hit the "Reply" button. Both are "responses", but are quite 
different.
This is, of course, before you get into the quagmire of the one-way 
agreement, especially one to which your ability to discuss the terms 
would involve replying by which would imply to agree to said terms.

:-)


Don't call me sad because I tend to read "the small print". You can 
sometimes find some amusing stuff buried in the pseudo-legalese. There 
was one program, ages ago, I think an image map creator for 'doze, that 
read like:
   By installing this software you agree... blah blah blah blah blah
   blah blah you will not fart in the bath any more blah blah blah blah
ROTFL.


Best wishes,

Rick.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...