Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/12/06 15:49

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> scripsit:

> Right, so in the analogous web-based situation, someone running a web
> site ought not to have the initial burden of proving that the user
> read the EULA.

Don't be ridiculous. If I put a note (in fine print, for example) on my
page, saying that by reading my page you commit to giving me everything you
own, that would constitute a contract between us, if your approach were
correct. The same would apply if my page contained, before a link, a note
saying that by following the link you commit to giving me everything you
own. According to your approach, we could discard even the fact that there
might be (well, there _would_ be, thanks to search engines) _other_ links to
the linked page, with no such note before the link.

Followups trimmed to alt.html. This was never really an HTML question.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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