Re:Contract by Email
by Y_Y on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:53PM
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I see your point here, but I'd counter that it's technologically trivial to check that the text matches a reference. If you already have a copy of the contract that you've read and agreed to, and this email claims to have included the same contract in a standard form, then nobody needs to sit down and read the thing.
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> it's technologically trivial to check that the text [of an email] matches a reference
Remember who we're talking about here: Lawyers and business people — too many of whom don't even know how to use Microsoft Word "properly." [0]
(You have no idea how many contract drafts I review in Word where the drafter used 'Normal' style for everything and just bold-faced the headings; used blank lines to put spacing between paragraphs; and didn't know how to do automatic paragraph numbering.)
[0] Obligatory link to the famous comment about Dropbox's launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224