[MAGZine]

Is anyone surprised by this? I'm reminded of two emails zuck was famous for sending. The first email incorporated the use of such banned verbiage. The second email, sent just a handful of minute later, seemed to speak to an imaginary jury, explaining why his last email was not anti-competitive nature.

I can only imagine some lawyer freaking out, dialing up zuck immediately, and dictating the followup email to write.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

I mean, intention usually matters.

People can and do regularly misspeak.

If you send a follow-up letter right after the first - it's hard to know if you're covering your ass or you realize you messed up.

And if you have good enough lawyers and you're not on trial for something like murder - you can usually get away with stuff like that.

As I think we should.

If I could go to jail for every time I said something dumb on accident - I'd have been locked up for life before I turned 20.

[MAGZine]

I don't think anybody is saying that you should have to go to jail for everytime you said something dumb! But if you are going to be acting anticompetitively, it sure is a dumb idea to send a memo about it--followup email or not.

[refurb]

I had that happen at a company. Somebody sent an email about an idea that violated an obscured federal law (the person who had the idea had no idea). The legal team basically dictated the reply to the email and actually copy-pasted the law as a response. "We can not implement this idea as it violated federal law ....."