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Subject:Re: warranty info in a manual From:Michael LaTorra <mikel -at- HUEY -dot- ACCUGRAPH -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Dec 1994 09:48:06 MST
Kelly Kremin asked about including 5 pages of warranty info
in her new manuals:
>Do you include warranty information in
>manuals? Do any of the 'big guys'?
Definitely. In our litigious era, it's cheaper for a company
to cover itself with a few pages of turgid legalese (that no
one normally reads) than it is to face even one lawsuit.
Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra
Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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