Cory Doctorow offers a cautionary tale...

[sensaes]

...on writing references for students via "ApplyYourself":

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/26/applyyourself-in-ord.html

[red tape insanity]

Comments

[dreadpirateange]

I love this! I will be trying the "by reading this, you have..." a lot more now!

[sensaes]

It's classic good fun Doctorow, but note the points made in the comments on the post (numbers 9 and 10 in particular) regarding the even less substantive "legally-binding" basis of his response!

[ofmonsters]

"No, you don't understand, you've already released me---just by reading my mail!"

ROTFL.

[imluxionverdin]

That's brilliant. These crazy EULA's at the end of emails are one of my pet peeves, so that anti-EULA statement is brilliant. I think I'll write out my own version (I don't want to break copyright), and start sending it back to anyone who sends me a crazy EULA email.

Brilliant.

[sensaes]

Do you remember that old publishing wheeze of the '70s - "This book will change your life!" ?

Couldn't get away with that now...