- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:48:10 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> I suppose the assumption is that the terms and conditions are basically a I doubt that. I think it is simply because they want to enusure that they are on the page, but know that virtually no-one will read them, and the rest will be annoyed by having to scroll through them. (Of course, they have to maintain the fiction that people read them, otherwise, like your bogus confidentiality notice, they risk having courts take the position that users weren't really accepting them when they pressed the Accept button.) As in the other reply, they can't rely on browsers having CSS2 overflow support. A very few actually monitor the text box, I seem to remember, and will not process the accept until you have scrolled through the text. I agree, though, with the other point that a simple link is probably undesirable in terms of not being a positive statement of acceptance, but then neither is a confidentiality notice that is read only after the unintended recipient has read the confidential message! > This email is confidential, intended solely for the addressees, and may be Clearly not true, so why should I believe it contexts where it might be true?
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