[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH V2] ARM: Add support for Lyrtech SFF-SDRboard (ARM926EJS)

Detlev Zundel dzu at denx.de
Fri May 23 15:22:12 CEST 2008


Hi Jerry,

> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> In message <4836BA48.1010109 at ge.com> you wrote:
>>>>>> THIS MESSAGE AND ALL ATTACHED DOCUMENTS ARE EXCLUSIVELY INTENDED
>>>>>> TO THE INDICATED RECIPIENTS AND ITS CONTENTS MAY BE CONFIDENTIAL.
>>>>>> IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO ANYONE TO TAKE COGNIZANCE, USE, OR
>>>>>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>> DIVULGE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN. IF YOU MISTAKENLY
>>>>>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ...
>>> Obviously the whole world is the "INDICATED RECIPIENTS" and thus it
>>> is OK to "TAKE COGNIZANCE" of his email.  :-P
>>
>> You are not a lawyer. You apply much too much common sense.
>>
>> The text reads: "IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO *ANYONE* TO TAKE
>> COGNIZANCE..."
>>
>> In legal speak, "anyone" really means "anyone", including the
>> "indicated recipients".
>
> Ahh, you are right.  You've out Englished my English.  ;-)  My English
> teacher in the 5th grade would harp on this: it should say "ANYONE
> ELSE" to prevent the internal conflict.  So many native English
> speaking people like make this error that we've become like blind to
> it.

Probably I was not being explicit enough in my first complain, but
exactly this blunt "ANYONE" really ticked my off in the first place.
Even if the company decides not to drop the footer, they should
change the wording to leave any sense in sending mails *at all*.

Cheers
  Detlev

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