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On 03/01/13 22:28, paul sutton wrote: > Simons Article got me thinking we should have some sort of disclaimer on > the site (front page) that says the info on the site is provided by > members and neither the lug or members will be liable for loss, or > injury or damage as result of the articles presented within the site. > Kai and I seem to disagree on a lot of stuff, but in this case I'm totally with him. I Am Not A Lawyer (IANAL), but what do you think throwing up a copy/paste boilerplate disclaimer will do in the modern legal warground of rounded corners? When packets of peanuts come with the label "warning: may contain traces of nuts" do you really think a non-legally advised bog-standard disclaimer slapped on a site frontpage means anything? Please don't do this. It just looks lame, and smacks of "we're pathetic and do not have courage of our own convictions: please sue us if your IQ is equal or less than your age in years." Don't even hide it away in a footer somewhere. It's so ridiculously, trivially and insanely obvious that we're a bunch of well meaning but legally defenceless nerds it's not even worth pretending to cover our arses. I personally don't want to live in a world where I have to prepend any honest advice I give with the warning: IANAL, do not give to children under the age of 5; no animals were hurt during the making of this blog; any similarities with people living or dead is a coincidence. F**k that. Whilst I'm at it: Kai's also right about Drupal sucking - it does. So does Wordpress, as I've said before. In fact, every single CMS sucks totally and is a worthless, buggy piece of crap. I'm sorry, but don't shoot the messenger: I support all these piles of junk and I don't have any solutions whatsoever. Between crap coding, XSS/CSRF, SQL injection and general stupidity if you can find me any one solution that isn't a completely useless, resource-sucking bug-ridden shit-pile I'll give you <finger to mouth> one BEEEEEELION dollars </finger to mouth>. Hint: don't bother looking, such a thing doesn't exist. Well, it does: static pages. There, I said it. Whilst I'm still at it: Kai seems to love everything version controlled. Well, I kind of hate to admit it, but he's right again. I'm not the biggest fan of git, but please, version control is not that complicated. If you DO think it's complicated, you probably shouldn't be working in IT. Or even remotely interested in IT. Or allowed near a computer even*. For the love of god, my mum is a 64 year old librarian and she can effortlessly handle the versioning of files inherent within DropBox, OS X, Windows VSS and Linux (to be fair, I did set some of these up for her, but she still intuitively understands "versioning"). Regards * unless you're George, who's valve computer pedigree means you get to ignore everything us young punks say -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq