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Re: legalese versus plain english

Ted Gavin <tedgavin@BELLATLANTIC.NET> Mon, 19 June 2000 13:06 UTC

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-----Original Message------
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@TORQUE.POTHOLE.COM>
To: IETF-RUN@MAILBAG.INTEL.COM
Sent: June 19, 2000 11:26:23 AM GMT
Subject: Re: legalese versus plain english

I think if we just state

"spamming often constitutes a criminal act, and can result in
fines, imprisonment and civil lawsuits for damages"

as Donald has laid out, we'll be fine.

If we need to cite anything in more specificity, we can do so in an
Appendix, can we not?

Ted

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