What we could do, however, is give people a standard slot to put such a
disclaimer in. Also, the disclaimer should ideally appear on the bottom
of every page, not just the front page.
And we at Tech should probably update all our Internet-visible Swikis at
some point, too....
Lex
Mark Guzdial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some of the GaTech Swikis do say this (see the bottom of
> http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs2340 and I think some of the Swikis at
> http://math36.math.gatech.edu:8080/), but I don't think that we can
> provide this for all institutions. The words on the CS2340 CoWeb are
> actually GaTech-institution-lawyer-approved words that were created
> for class websites. Other folks will probably want similar but
> slightly different terms.
>
> Mark
>
> >It would be nice to start putting fine print at the bottom of swiki
> >pages to the effect that they are wide open and do not necessarily
> >reflect the opinions of anyone at Georgia Tech, even if they seem to.
> >Someone posted some profanity on a coweb page I had used for a group
> >project over a year ago, and the page showed up on web searches (or at
> >least, I imagine it did -- I can't figure out how else someone might
> >have found this page).
> >
> >There's no rush for this, but maybe a "legalese" template rule would be
> >nice to add in future Swiki releases. :)
> >
> >
> >Lex
>
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