Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/12/06 18:03

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

>> 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.
>
> If I asked someone for the time of day, and he handed me a printed
> form reading "In return for the time of day from X I agree to pay him
> one million dollars", my response would be not to sign it. If I read
> something like that on a web page with a link, my response would be
> not to click it.

I didn't write anything about links in the part quoted above.

By reading this message, you commit yourself to giving me everything you
own.

Now, will you follow your own logic and send me your money, please?

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

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