In message <20050323181949.99796.qmail_at_...> Jane Williams writes:
>
>--- Jeff Richard <richj_at_...> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there anything we should do *now* to at least make
>> > a stab at complying with it? Not next week, not
>> > tomorrow, *now*? Putting the legal bit on the front
>> > pages of our web-sites is my first thought. And I
>> > tried, but the wording isn't exactly obvious.
>>
>> Jane - I urge a just a little more patience.
>
>(sigh) I'll try, but I'm trying to handle this in the
>same way as I'd handle one of the web-sites our team
>run at work. If there's a legal problem with the
>content of a web-page, I'd expect to have it fixed in
>a few hours or even minutes, not days. Because legal
>is important. The fan policy is out, and has been for
>more than 24 hours, so I should be obeying it, *now*.
>No, I'm not a professional with this site - that's why
>I'd allow myself a whole 24 hours. More than that, and
>I start getting massive guilty feelings.
You're forgetting the intermediate stage in the work routine.
Where you refer the matter to the organisation's lawyers to
decide what a) must be done, b) should be done, c) might
usefully be done d) should not be done. How many months does
this usually take?
Jeff has kindly taken on the job of interpreting the highly
legalistic document so those of us without a mastery or two
at "Read legal documents" can actually understand what's
wanted.
--
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/