tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post8140873415007636833..comments2024-01-17T07:03:57.842+00:00Comments on The Mad Ranter: Six months on - the Companies ActFlipChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-90131357063541150462007-06-15T09:08:00.000+01:002007-06-15T09:08:00.000+01:00Indeed I often get a three line email with half a ...Indeed I often get a three line email with half a page of legalese at the bottom of it.<BR/><BR/>Oh and that it's been virus-checked, but that doesn't mean it's safe to open; which makes you wonder what the point was of telling me that in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Didn't know about the EU law, perhaps this alteration was to bring UK law into compliance?FlipChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-81126769108236478032007-06-14T18:51:00.000+01:002007-06-14T18:51:00.000+01:00It's particularly silly when you get emails from c...It's particularly silly when you get emails from companies with reams on the bottom about how if the mail is not for you then obviously it must be your fault if they addressed it wrong and they're going to sue your pants for reading their misdirected mail, and by the way would you be so kind as to tell them before deleting it, and these mails still don't have the required information on. It sort of pre-emptively puts a hole in whatever technical-infeasibility excuse they lamely come up with. I particularly hate it when people send such mails to mailing lists: obviously in such a case it is not intended only for the named recipient.<BR/><BR/>As for putting your address on your website, I remember my E-commerce lectures in final year, where we were advised by the Computer Lab's legal counsel that under EU law, any contract entered into via a website is not binding on the customer unless the website identifies the legal address of the vendor, so most businesses should already have all their details on their websites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com