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Re: what the heck do i do now?
From: Chris Owen <owenc () hubris net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:29:29 -0600
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Mark Foster wrote:
list... I talked to my lawyer. And while I am not a lawyer, I can tell you that my lawyer pointed out several interesting legal theories under which I could have some serious liability, and so I don't do that any more. (As an example, consider what happens *to you* if a hospital stops getting emailed results back from their outside laboratory service because their "email firewall" is checking your server, and someone dies as a result of the delay)So while I think you'd be justified in doing it, I think you'd find that 1) lots of people wouldn't change their configs at all, and 2) you might find that your liability insurance doesn't cover deliberate acts.Uhm. I don't follow?
I my experience, people who tell stories like this really just need to get a better lawyer. I've had several lawyers contact us on things about this lame and have found that that the one sentence reply letter is often the most effective:
Dear Sir: Kiss my what? Never hear from them again. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFwV6ZElUlCLUT2d0RArP9AKC4JaEP5QJiB70SfrCWGkI9eTdxBwCcC+wA +DFKKXKMUqluFDF1DNCBJ0o= =sndk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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- what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Randy Bush (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Derek J. Balling (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Steve Sobol (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Barry Shein (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Brian Wallingford (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Chris L. Morrow (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Matthew Kaufman (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Mark Foster (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Chris Owen (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Mark Foster (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Derek J. Balling (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Randy Bush (Jan 31)
- RE: what the heck do i do now? Gregory Taylor (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jon Lewis (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Ross Hosman (Jan 31)