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Re: what the heck do i do now?

  • From: Chris Owen
  • Date: Wed Jan 31 22:34:56 2007 

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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

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