“Any errors are the fault of no-one in particular; rather, society itself is to blame.” And: “All errors are the authors’ sole responsibility, but persons aggrieved by any such errors are encouraged to sue the companies which manufactured our computers.” [Kopel/Volokh]
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Here is a trailer that I sometimes use on my e-mail, especially in response to law firms that have the usual meaningless and obnoxious warnings in thei trailers to their e-mails:
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This electronic message may contain privileged and/or confidential
information; If you are not the intended recipient, delete it from your
system immediately, burn your hard drive and kill everyone who may
have also violated the sender’s privacy. If these instructions are not
followed within the next three minutes, you will not get one single wish, your telephone will not ring, you will never find true love, you will not get rich beyond your dreams, you will not receive an amazing surprise, and your hard drive will contain one more useless file.
IRS Circular 230 Notice: To ensure compliance with certain regulations promulgated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, we inform you that no matter what tax advice any of the fine law firms out there may give to you, you still have to pay your taxes!
This reminds me of that all-persons disclaimer, for fiction. There is a 3 Stooges short that states something like:
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is a crying shame.